FED: National holiday road toll rises to 48

AAP General News (Australia)
12-31-2000
FED: National holiday road toll rises to 48

SYDNEY, Dec 30 AAP - The national road toll for the holiday period has risen to 48
with the death of a 21-year-old man in Western Australia.

He was killed when his car collided head-on with a truck near Lancelin, about 120km
north of Perth, at about 3.30pm (WST) today.

The truck driver was trapped in the crash and had to be cut out.

He was flown by helicopter to hospital but his condition is not known.

The man's death brings Western Australia's road toll for the holiday period to four.

Three people also died on New South Wales roads today, bringing the number of deaths
in the state to 27.

The deaths include two motorcyclists, a 20-year-old man who died on the Newell Highway
at Tichborne, near Parkes, in the state's west, and a 55-year-old man who died at Singleton,
north-west of Newcastle.

A police spokesman said they both died after losing control on bends.

A 69-year-old male cyclist died today on the NSW north coast near Grafton after suffering
a heart attack and tumbling down a one-metre embankment, sustaining fatal injuries.

Queensland has had seven road deaths in the holiday period, Victoria and South Australia
four each, and Tasmania and the ACT one each.





(Eds: National road toll figures are for the period 0001 December 22 to 2359 January
7. Some states and territories have different periods).

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