FED:Road toll doubles on Xmas Day

AAP General News (Australia)
12-25-2011
FED:Road toll doubles on Xmas Day

SYDNEY, Dec 25 AAP - The national road toll has more than doubled, from five on Christmas
Eve to 13 on Christmas Day.

Six people have died on NSW roads.

Two were killed when a car veered off the road and crashed into a steel guard rail
in Tweed Heads, on the far north coast NSW, early on Sunday morning.

The 49-year-old male driver suffered severe injuries and died at the scene.

His 50-year-old female passenger died later in Tweed Heads Hospital.

A few hours later, a man in his 20s died when his car smashed into a tree near Tamworth
in the state's north.

On Christmas Eve, an 83-year-old man died after his vehicle collided with a utility
on the Kings Highway in Warri in the state's south.

In South Australia, a 29-year-old driver was killed on Christmas Day just four kilometres
from his home, taking the state's holiday road toll to two.

In Western Australia, a 27-year-old Taiwanese man was killed after losing control of
his car at Brookton.

The Northern Territory recorded its first road death of the Christmas season when a
37-year-old man was struck by a road train near Elliot, about half-way between Darwin
and Alice Springs, early on Christmas Day.

The road toll remains at one in Victoria and two in Queensland.

There have been no accidents in Tasmania and the ACT.

(EDS: The national road toll period runs from 0001 December 23, 2011 until 2359 January
3, 2012, local times, in line with the Australia New Zealand Policing Advisory Board.)

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