Car plummets from cliff in Victoria's High Country with kids inside
Five people, including two children, have been taken to hospital after their car plummeted from a cliff in Victoria's High Country.
The car travelled 200 metres off the road and into a gully on the Great Alpine Road in Harrietville about 6.15pm.
A multi-agency rescue operation was deployed to rescue and free the trapped occupants in the car.
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The car travelled off the road and into a gully last night. Nine
A woman, 59, was airlifted to The Alfred hospital with upper body injuries in a stable condition.
Another woman, 34, was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, while a man, 35, and two primary school-aged children were taken to hospital for observation.
Harrietville is about 345km north-east of Melbourne and near the Mount Hotham and Dinner Plain alpine resorts.
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