A COUPLE visiting Mansfield Shire last week was lucky to avoid serious injury after they drove at high speed into a round hay bale on the Maroondah Highway just outside of Merton.
Georgia Nelson and Justin Coughlin were travelling to visit family in the Merrijig area when at around 9PM they smashed at 100kmph into the large bale, which potentially weighed in the vicinity of 350 kilograms.
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