Woman struck by garbage truck among three fatalities on SA roads

South Australia's roads have claimed three lives in separate crashes on Wednesday, marking a grim day for road safety in the state. The fatalities include a young woman who was struck by a garbage truck in Adelaide's north-east.

The 23-year-old woman from Modbury Heights died when she was hit by the truck on Melrose Street in the same suburb around 9:45am. The 48-year-old truck driver, from Prospect, was uninjured but has been reported for careless driving causing death and will appear in court later.

In another incident south-east of Adelaide, a 43-year-old motorcyclist from Nangkita died when his bike crashed into a building at a Langhorne Creek winery and caught fire. Separately, a man from Paradise died in a head-on collision with a road train at Elwomple, southeast of Tailem Bend.

The Dukes Highway is expected to remain closed overnight due to the road train crash, which caused a fire. These three deaths bring the total number of lives lost on South Australian roads this year to 50, a stark increase from the 37 fatalities recorded at the same point last year.