NSW records first Easter road fatalities

Two elderly men - aged 71 and 92 - have died on NSW's roads over the Easter long weekend following separate crashes at Inverell and Beecroft.

A 71-year-old man has died in regional NSW after his car left the road, rolled and slammed into a tree.

The man - who was the car's sole occupant - died on the Gwydir Highway at Inverell before midday on Saturday.

The fatality came a day after a passenger died when the car he was travelling in collided with another vehicle in Sydney's northwest.

The 92-year-old victim was seated in the rear of the car when the crash occurred at Beecroft on Friday afternoon, NSW police said in a statement on Saturday.

He died at the scene.

There have been two deaths on the state's roads over the Easter long weekend so far.


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