Fed: Qld death raises holiday road toll to 24

AAP General News (Australia)
12-25-2001
Fed: Qld death raises holiday road toll to 24

SYDNEY, Dec 25 AAP - Australia's holiday road toll has climbed to 24 with four deaths
so far on Christmas Day.

An 18-month-old girl died when a car she was in crashed on the Cunningham Highway west
of Brisbane.

A 50-year-old woman later died in hospital of injuries from the same accident.

A police spokesman said the single-vehicle crash occurred about 5.15am (AEST) today
on the highway at Maryvale, 35 km east of Warwick.

Three adults travelling in the car, which was heading to Brisbane, were injured.

They were taken for treatment to Warwick Base Hospital, where the 50-year-old died
at about 11pm (AEST).

A 61-year-old man also died today when his car ran off the road at Maryborough, in
central Victoria, and hit a tree.

No other vehicles were involved in the accident, at about 7.30am (AEDT), police said.

A motorist was killed in the Northern Territory's Kakadu National Park.

Police said the car rolled on the Arnhem Highway near the uranium mining town of Jabiru
about midday (CST).

No further details were available.

NSW police today said a 46-year-old man was killed yesterday when his car crashed into
a parked vehicle in Sydney's inner west at 10.45am (AEDT).

It was believed the man died of a heart attack in the accident at Fernbank Road, Marrickville,
and a coroner would investigate the death, police said.

The death brings the NSW holiday road toll to nine.

There were six deaths on NSW roads yesterday.

So far this holiday period, five people have been killed on the roads in Victoria,
five in Queensland, three in the Northern Territory and one each in Western Australia
and South Australia.

No road deaths have been recorded in Tasmania or the ACT.



(Eds: National road toll figures are for the period 0001 (AEDT) December 21 to 2359
(AEDT) January 6. Some states and territories have different periods.)

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