The driver of a car involved in a fatal Monaro Highway crash that left two students dead will face charges, after being arrested at Sydney airport trying to leave the country.
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Samikshya Subedi, 22, who was studying at Queensford College, Sydney, and Gopal Bhandari, 21, died when the car they were travelling in came off the road near Rose Valley Road, Bunyan, about 10km north of Cooma about 3.40am on Sunday, July 28. There were five people in the Mazda 6 sedan, which was travelling south.
"The driver, a 22-year-old man, suffered a serious head laceration and two male passengers, aged 19 and 20, suffered superficial head lacerations," police said in a statement.
Police said they had been investigating the crash, and arrested the driver at Sydney Airport as he was attempting to board a flight out of the country about 7pm on Friday.
"The man, a Nepalese National, was taken to Mascot Police Station and charged with dangerous driving occasioning death (x2), dangerous driving occasioning grievous bodily harm, cause bodily harm by misconduct (x2), negligent driving occasioning death, and negligent driving occasioning grievous bodily harm," police said.
He was expected to appear at Parramatta Bail Court on Saturday.
Shortly after the crash, Queanbeyan police inspector Sandy Green said it had been an "absolutely tragic" scene, which she said still effected the emergency services who attended.
"It is rather daunting. When I arrived on the scene I was taken aback," she said. "This is a life changing situation for all those emergency services, for every person that went past that accident."
