A Corryong teen alleged to have been the driver of a stolen vehicle on the wrong side of the Hume Freeway prior to a fatal head-on collision on Friday morning was on bail for similar alleged offending involving a stolen Wangaratta car just days earlier.

A 16-year-old girl from the Wodonga area lost her life following a collision between an allegedly stolen Nissan X-Trail and a utility about 12:50am, 3 October at Wodonga.

The girl died at the scene while the 18-year-old driver of the Nissan and the 23-year-old NSW male driver of the utility were hospitalised with non-life-threatening injuries.

Investigators allege the Nissan was stolen from a West Wodonga address on 30 September and the car, with the 16-year-old as passenger, was speeding southbound in the northbound lanes at the time of the incident.

Just five days prior to the incident, a police spokesperson said the 18-year-old Corryong woman was jailed after she was a passenger inside an allegedly stolen car taken from Wangaratta seen driving erratically from Corryong.

The vehicle was sighted leaving Corryong on Sunday night and was allegedly driven by an 18-year-old Wodonga man.

Police used a tyre deflation device on the vehicle which was subsequently dumped in Baranduda.

The offenders fled into bushland and were arrested a short time later.

Both 18-year-olds faced Wodonga Magistrates’ Court on Monday, with the Corryong woman bailed.