Vic road toll climbs after fatal head-on in state's east

AAP General News (Australia)
12-31-2005
Vic road toll climbs after fatal head-on in state's east

Victorian police say there's been a fatal head-on collision in the state's east ..

taking the state's road toll for the Christmas-New Year period to eight.

The national road toll is now 36.

They say crash happened this morning .. about five kilometres east of Stratford ..

on the Princes Highway.. but details are sketchy.

They say officers from the Major Collision unit are making the three hour trip to the
accident site.

The death takes Victoria's road toll for 2005 to 346 .. one more than for the same
period last year.







(EDS: AAP's Xmas/New Year road toll figures are for the period 0001 December 23 to
2359 January 6. Some state and territory police forces may use different road toll periods.)

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