Fed: Holiday road toll at 39 after deaths in WA, Qld, Vic

AAP General News (Australia)
12-28-2008
Fed: Holiday road toll at 39 after deaths in WA, Qld, Vic

SYDNEY, Dec 28 AAP - The national holiday road toll has risen to 39 with the latest
fatality in Queensland, where a woman died when her car crashed into a tree in Brisbane.

The accident on Sunday morning at Cashmere, in Brisbane's northern suburbs, lifted
Queensland's holiday toll to seven.

In Victoria, one of two cyclists struck by a car on Christmas Eve has died in a Melbourne
hospital.

Sean Brindle, 35, from Western Australia, died in The Alfred Hospital on Saturday night
after he and his brother were knocked off their bikes by a car in Beach Road, Mentone.

Victoria's holiday road toll now stands at 11.

West Australian Police added another victim to their holiday toll on Sunday - a child
who died on Christmas Eve after a car rollover the previous day in Narrogin, in WA's wheatbelt
region south-east of Perth.

Added to the deaths of two motorcyclists, Western Australia's holiday road toll stands at nine.

Victoria still top's the holiday toll with 11 deaths, with WA next and NSW on eight.

There have been seven deaths in Queensland, three in the Northern Territory and one in
South Australia.

No road fatalities have been recorded in Tasmania or the Australian Capital Territory.



FATALITIES

QLD - 7

NSW - 8

ACT - 0

VIC -11

TAS - 0

SA - 1

NT - 3

WA - 9

TOTAL - 39



(EDS: National road toll figures are for the period 0001 December 19 to 2359 January
2. Some states and territories have different periods.)

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