BY IAN CROUCH
One person is dead and another has been airlifted to hospital after a multi-vehicle crash near Muswellbrook.
Emergency services were called to the New England Highway at Liddell just before midnight on Tuesday to reports of a 3 vehicle crash.
Police say two cars collided before a truck later hit the vehicles.
They arrived to find a man deceased in one of the vehicles, while the 22-yea-old female driver of a second car was trapped before being freed and flown to the John Hunter Hospital in a serious condition.
The truck driver in his 40's was uninjured and taken to Muswellbrook Hospital for mandatory testing.
The Highway remains closed with diversions in place.
It's been a horror week on the region's roads, with a double fatality last Saturday at Denman and the death of a man in his 50's in a crash at Murulla north of Scone on Monday afternoon.
