A child has been killed in a crash on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia on Friday.

The three-year-old girl was the passenger in a car that crashed with a truck on Sandy Church Rd at Sandilands just before 3pm.

The young passenger could not be saved when paramedics arrived at the crash near Davies Rd.

A 31-year-old local woman was airlifted to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

The truck driver, a 71-year-old Yorke Peninsula man, was not physically injured in the crash.

Crash investigators remain at the site, to understand how the tragedy occurred.

The child’s death is the 74th life lost on South Australian roads so far this year.

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