Fed: National holiday road toll at 17, three deaths in Vic today

AAP General News (Australia)
12-25-2006
Fed: National holiday road toll at 17, three deaths in Vic today

SYDNEY, Dec 25 AAP - Three deaths in Victoria this morning have taken the national
road toll for the holiday period to 17.

Police say a woman in her 50s is dead after her vehicle ploughed into a road barrier
at Nar Nar Goon in outer Melbourne about 6am (AEDT).

Police believe she hit black ice on the road causing her to lose control of her vehicle.

Also in Victoria, a 21-year-old man was killed at Berwick when he lost control of his
car on the Princes Highway and hit a pylon early this morning.

He died at the scene while his two passengers suffered serious injuries.

A 27-year-old man was killed at Cannons Creek early this morning when he lost control
of his car and hit a tree.

In New South Wales, three young drivers, two of them on their P-plates and one unlicensed,
have figured in three of the six deaths so far on New South Wales roads this holiday.

Police say a 24-year-old man who died last night after his car hit a power pole in
Sydney's south-west was a P-plate driver.

Another P-plater aged 17 was killed on Christmas eve after his car smashed into a power
pole in Sydney's south west.

And a 21-year-old unlicensed driver's been charged over the death of a four-month-old
baby girl in a crash in Sydney's west on December 23.

Over the holiday period six people have died on roads in New South Wales, four in
Victoria, three in Queensland and two in both South Australia and Tasmania.

The ACT Northern Territory and WA remain fatality free.

(Eds: National road toll figures are for the period 0001 December 22 to 2359 January
5. Some states and territories have different periods.)

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