A man and a girl have died after an SUV ran off the road and slid down an embankment on the NSW mid-north coast.
Police were called to Tugrabakh, about two hours' drive north of Newcastle, about 3am on Saturday following reports of a single-vehicle crash.
They found a man in his 40s and a young girl of an unknown age dead in the car.
Two boys who had been trapped in the vehicle were freed and taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Police are investigating the circumstances of the crash and a report will be prepared for the coroner.