Fed: National holiday road toll still nine, despite revisions

AAP General News (Australia)
04-19-2003
Fed: National holiday road toll still nine, despite revisions

The national holiday road toll stands at nine, after a fatal accident involving a teenager
in Western Australia.

Police say the 17-year-old boy was thrown from his car onto a gravel road near Wongan
Hills, about 200km north-east of Perth, yesterday afternoon and died from head injuries.

His death takes Western Australia's holiday road toll to five.

Three people have died on Victorian roads, but Queensland's toll has been revised down
to one after police determined a woman found dead yesterday died of exposure, not from
injuries suffered in a road accident.

Police say the 80-year-old woman's car overturned on Old Rosemont Rd at Peranga, about
230km west of Brisbane, about 7pm (AEST) on Thursday.

There was no sign of her when police were called to the scene two hours later and her
body was found in a dam about 6am (AEST) yesterday.

There have been no road deaths anywhere in Australia today, and none on any day of
the holiday so far in New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, the Northern Territory
and the ACT.





(Eds: AAP's Easter road toll figures are for the period 0001 April 17 to 2359 April
21. Some states and territories may have different periods).

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