Qld: Qld death brings national Xmas road toll to 24

AAP General News (Australia)
12-25-2001
Qld: Qld death brings national Xmas road toll to 24

Australia's holiday road toll has climbed to 24 with four people dying yesterday's Christmas Day.

In Queensland, an 18-month-old girl died when a car she was travelling in crashed on
the Cunningham Highway at at Maryvale, west of Brisbane.

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

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

Meanwhile, a motorist was killed in the Northern Territory's Kakadu National Park on
the Arnhem Highway near the uranium mining town of Jabiru.

The New South Wales holiday road toll now is nine, five people have died on Victorian
roads, five people 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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