ONE man is dead, an elderly couple needed to be cut from their car and three children narrowly escaped death in three separate accidents on the same morning within a few kilometres of each other last week.
Crash experts are investigating the death of a motorcyclist at Buttaba about 6am on Wednesday of last week.
The Rathmines man, 58, was riding south along Wangi Road when his motorcycle was in collision with a Mazda at the Buttaba Hills Road intersection. The motorcyclist died at the scene.
The car's 18-year-old green P-plate driver, from Buttaba, escaped serious injury.
In the second incident, a couple aged in their 80s were trapped for a short time after their hatchback struck a power pole and hit a fence at the Dorrington and Clydebank Roads intersection, Rathmines, about 7am. Both were taken to John Hunter Hospital.
In the third accident, the Greig children - Curtis, 8, Ruby, 7, and Lily, 5, were "knocked out of their shoes" using the pedestrian crossing outside Toronto Public School.
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