Buxton car crash: police charge driver after NSW smash that killed five teens

Distraught teenagers lay flowers and cards at site south-west of Sydney, near Picton, where their friends died

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Police have charged an 18-year-old man who was allegedly driving a ute when it crashed south-west of Sydney on Tuesday night, killing five high school friends and leaving people in a small rural community grieving.

Police said the man suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was treated by New South Wales ambulance paramedics before being taken to Liverpool hospital for mandatory testing.