Fed: Victoria records most road deaths

AAP General News (Australia)
12-24-2004
Fed: Victoria records most road deaths

Four of the nation's six road deaths so far this holiday season have been recorded in Victoria.

In the latest fatal accident, a man and a woman in their 20s were killed when their
car hit a pole in Melbourne's south-east this morning.

Police say the accident happened about 4am (AEDT) on Wellington Road, in Clayton.

It was the second double fatality in that state in 12 hours.

A 37-year-old woman and a 13-year-old girl were passengers in a four-wheel drive that
rolled on the Western Freeway north of Ballarat, about 120 km west of Melbourne last night.

Elsewhere, a 66-year-old man died when his ute hit a tree, south of Tullamore in central
western New South Wales, yesterday.

And in Queensland, a 17-year-old boy died in a Gold Coast hospital yesterday afternoon
following a road accident earlier in the day.







((EDS: National road toll figures are for the period 0001 December 24 to 2359 January
3, 2005. Some states and territories have different periods)).





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