FED: National road toll stands at 34

AAP General News (Australia)
12-31-2005
FED: National road toll stands at 34

Two crashes in South Australia and Queensland this morning have taken the national
road toll for the Christmas-New Year period to 34.

A person's been killed after a car and a semi-trailer collided on the national highway
.. north of Adelaide.

It brings the state's the toll for the year to 150 .. 11 more than at the same time last year.

Police say the accident happened on National Highway One .. five kilometres south of Warnertown.

No further details are available .. though traffic diversions are in place.

Meanwhile .. police say a man's also died near Beachmere .. north of Brisbane .. after
his car ran off the road and hit a tree.

It brings Queensland's road toll to 11.

His death follows that of a 16-year-old girl .. driving with a fake licence .. whose
car crashed near Marlborough .. in central Queensland .. yesterday.

Queensland's road toll is the highest in Australia after the first week of the 15-day period.

So far this year .. the state road toll is 326.

WA's toll total is five and seven people have died in Victoria since the holiday toll
period started on December 23.

There've been five deaths in New South Wales .. four in South Australia and two in Tasmania.

The ACT and the Northern Territory remain fatality free.





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

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