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One dead, two injured after truck ploughs through Merrylands front yards

A man has died and two others have been injured after a truck ran through a pair of front yards in Merrylands, on Saturday afternoon.

The truck collided with a car travelling in the opposite direction on Burnett Street in the western Sydney suburb, before leaving the road, police said.

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Truck ploughs through Merrylands front yard

A man has died and two others have been injured after a truck ran through two front yards in Merrylands, on Saturday afternoon. Vision: Seven News

One man was hit in front of a nearby property, before the truck hit two other people after running into an adjacent front yard.

Emergency services found an elderly man dead by the time they arrived. They rushed two others to Westmead Hospital - one in a critical condition.

Neither the driver of the truck or car involved in the incident were injured. Both, though, were taken for mandatory blood and urine testing.