<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A 14-year-old boy has been killed and two other teenagers are fighting for life after a ute believed to have been stolen hit a tree in rural Victoria.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Police say the ute hit a tree on the Calder Highway, near Woosang-Yeungroon Road in Woosang, north-west of Melbourne, just before 10am.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The driver, 18, and another passenger, also 14, were found trapped and had to be cut from the vehicle and airlifted to hospital.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/shark-attack-rottnest-island-perth-western-australia/8eb76e10-df38-44af-8029-250d9ba88432"><strong><span>Suspected great white shark attack off Rottnest Island</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Police believe the vehicle was stolen overnight from nearby Mildura, where the teenagers were from.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Detective Sergeant Ashley Pendrick said the group was "heavily trapped" after the "high impact" crash.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It took rescue workers some time to get them out of the vehicle, and yeah, it would have been really confronting for them to come across it this morning," he said,</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/victoria-crash-woosang/299966e2-f914-48a6-9b25-ed667e6818b6" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Police don't know how fast the ute was travelling or how it lost control.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We're looking at everything, we will look at speed, we will look at the road conditions. We will look at the manner of driving," he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>There were no witnesses and the first notification police received about the crash was from the vehicle itself.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Pendrick warned young people to "know there's consequences for their actions".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"When you look at incidents like this that are totally devastating you just plead to those kids that they're not playing games, there's real consequences," he said.</span></div></div>
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