Fed: Queensland records first Christmas road fatality

AAP General News (Australia)
12-19-2003
Fed: Queensland records first Christmas road fatality

SYDNEY, Dec 19 AAP - Queensland recorded the first road fatality of the Christmas period
overnight when a 50-year-old man died in a car crash at Nerang, on the Gold Coast.

A police spokeswoman said the man's sedan left the Nerang Connection Road at about
12.30am (AEST) - within half an hour of the road toll period opening.

She said the driver lost control when the vehicle hit a median strip as he attempted
to make a left turn.

It travelled across three lanes of traffic in Price Street and collided with a four-wheel
drive travelling west on Price Street.

The woman driving the four-wheel drive was not injured.

Last Christmas-New Year 71 people died on Australia's roads - 23 in Victoria, 14 each
in NSW and South Australia, 12 in Queensland, six in Western Australia and one each in
Tasmania and the Northern Territory.



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

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