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Swift performs at Melbourne Cricket Ground on February 16, 2024.
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A sixteen-year-old Taylor Swift fan was killed in a head-on collision with a semi-truck while on her way to see the pop star in concert in Melbourne on Thursday.
Mieka Pokarier was traveling with her mother to the concert when the SUV they were traveling in was involved in a collision with the semi-trailer shortly before 6 p.m. local time. CNN Affiliate 7 News Australia reported.
Mieka, who was in the front passenger seat, died at the scene, local police said. Her 10-year-old sister, who was in the back seat, is in critical condition at a local hospital, 7 News Australia reported.
His mother is being treated for minor injuries.
Melbourne police said the collision took place about 30 kilometers (18 miles) northeast of the city of Dubbo.
“The driver of the SUV was treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics before being taken to Dubbo Hospital with minor injuries.” New south Wales police said in a statement.
“The rear passenger, a 10-year-old girl, was airlifted to Westmead Hospital in a critical condition,” the police statement added.
Swift is in Melbourne for the Australian leg of her global “Eras Tour.”
The tragedy follows the death in November of a Taylor Swift fan before a concert in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. That death came amid a record heat wave that had led Swift postpone a previous show.
Benevides Machado, 23 years old, He supposedly collapsed in the stadium and then he died.
“This is the last thing I thought would happen when we decided to take this tour to Brazil,” Swift said in a statement on Instagram at the time. “I can’t even express how devastated I am by this.
“I won’t be able to talk about this from the stage because I feel overwhelmed with grief even when I try to talk about it.”
In Australia, a GoFundMe A page has been created to support Mieka’s relatives.
“My family is what I live for. “I’m devastated,” her father said, according to 7 News Australia.