Fed: Holiday road toll increases at 41

AAP General News (Australia)
12-30-2008
Fed: Holiday road toll increases at 41

The national holiday road toll has risen to 41 with the death of a woman in central Queensland.

Police say the car in which the woman was a passenger stopped at the side of the Bruce
Highway .. 50 kilometres south of Rockhampton .. about 10 o'clock (AEST) last night ..

and she walked to the rear of the vehicle.

It's believe the woman .. aged in her 50s .. was struck by a car travelling north.

The 35-year-old male driver received a minor injury to his right hand .. but his 35-year-old
female passenger .. and their two children aged six and nine .. were uninjured.

The death takes Queensland's holiday road toll to nine.

Victoria still tops the toll with 11 deaths .. Western Australia has nine .. and NSW eight.

There have been three deaths in the Northern Territory and one in South Australia ..

while Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory remain fatality free.



FATALITIES

QLD - 9

NSW - 8

ACT - 0

VIC - 11

TAS - 0

SA - 1

NT - 3

WA - 9

TOTAL - 41



(EDS: National road toll figures are for the period 0001 December 19 to 2359 January
2. Some states and territories have different periods.)

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