Fed: National road toll climbs to 24

AAP General News (Australia)
12-26-2006
Fed: National road toll climbs to 24

SYDNEY, Dec 26 AAP - The national holiday road toll has risen to 24 with eight deaths
on the roads on Christmas day and one more this morning.

A fatal accident on the M5 in Sydney's south-west early this morning claimed the life
of a woman and closed southbound traffic.

Police found the women's badly damaged Sedan across two lanes of the motorway but ambulance
officers were unable to resuscitate her after she sustained serious head injuries.

In Western Australia a 61-year-old man has died after losing control of his car and
rolling it several times north of Perth.

His death about midday yesterday (WDT) is WA's first for the holiday road toll period.

Two people died in separate accidents on Victorian roads last night.

Police say a woman died when her car flipped near Meredith west of Melbourne and a
man died when his motorcycle collided with another vehicle at Kyneton north-west of Melbourne.

New South Wales has the highest road toll for the holiday period with eight people killed.

Six people have died on roads in Victoria, five in Queensland, two in both South Australia
and Tasmania and one in Western Australia.

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

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