Tasmania's DPP hurt in fatal car crash TASMANIA'S Director of Public Prosecutions, Tim Ellis, is in hospital after a car accident that killed a woman. Mr Ellis, 57, is in a stable condition in the Royal Hobart Hospital after surgery on a broken leg. A 27-year-old Launceston woman died at the scene after the three-car accident on Sunday evening near Oatlands on the Midland Highway. Police said a 2011 Mercedes being driven by a 57-year-old man crossed onto the wrong side of the road and collided head-on with the woman's hatch in an overtaking lane. A 44-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes, reportedly Mr Ellis's wife Anita Smith, was also injured but has been discharged from hospital. The Mercedes hit a third car towing a trailer but its two occupants were not hurt. The woman who died was the sole occupant of the hatch. No charges have been laid but police have called on anyone who witnessed the crash or saw the cars earlier to come forward. The Mercedes was travelling south and crossed double lines into a northbound overtaking lane, a police statement said. The highway, which is the main road between Hobart and Launceston, was closed for around seven hours. The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions said no public comment was being made.