Motorcycle accidents take national road toll to 47

AAP General News (Australia)
12-30-2000
Motorcycle accidents take national road toll to 47

The deaths of two motorcyclists in separate accidents in NSW has taken the national
road toll for the holiday period to 47.

A police spokesman says the body of a man was found about 9.30am (AEDT) lying in a
paddock at Tichborne, near Parkes, on the Newell Highway in the state's west today.

The spokesman says it appears the man, aged 20, had unsuccessfully tried to negotiate
a series of S-bends near the Tichborne railway crossing.

The rider became airborne, struck a fencepost and is believed to have been killed instantly.

The spokesman says the second motorcycle rider killed was a man, 55, from Singleton.

He says the rider lost control of his motorbike on a bend at Lake St Clair, north of
Singleton, and skidded before striking a post.

The man suffered severe head injuries and was pronounced dead on arrival at John Hunter
Hospital at Newcastle.

The New South Wales road toll for the holiday period is now 27.

In Queensland the toll is seven, while four people have died in road accidents in Victoria,
four in South Australia, three in Western Australia, one in the Australian Capital Territory
and Tasmania one.

There have been no fatal accidents in the Northern Territory since the toll began.





(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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