The national holiday road toll has reached 38 after two drivers died in a head-on collision in NSW. Source: AAP
SEVEN people including an eight-year-old girl have died in traffic accidents in what has been a bleak start to the new year on Australian roads.
The New Year's Day fatalities began in NSW, after a head-on crash on the Pacific Highway on the north coast.
Two cars collided at Bangalow, near Possum Creek Road, at about 2.20am (AEDT) and its drivers, a man and a woman, were killed.
There were no passengers in either car, but the holiday road toll has climbed to 11.
In Western Australia just after midnight a car left the road and hit a tree on the side of the Great Southern Highway east of Perth.
An eight-year-old girl, her two-year-old sister and their 30-year-old mother had to be cut from the vehicle and flown to Perth for treatment.
The eight-year-old died in hospital while her mother is being treated for serious injuries.
The two-year-old sustained minor injuries.
Several hours later a man was killed in a hit-and-run incident as he walked along a suburban street south of Perth.
The man, who is yet to be identified, was struck by a vehicle at about 4.30am (WST) as he walked along Ennis Avenue in Waikiki.
Investigators are calling for witnesses.
In Queensland, two men aged 28 and 19 were killed when the car they were in crashed into the front yard of a house west of Brisbane.
The vehicle ploughed through a fence before coming to rest on its side in the front yard of the house in Glebe Street in the Ipswich suburb of Silkstone at about 4.45am (AEST).
An 18-year-old man who was also in the car and who was taken to hospital with head injuries is in a stable condition.
Earlier, a 41-year-old woman who was asleep on the road was struck and killed by an L-plate motorcycle rider in the Northern Territory.
Police believe the woman was lying on Sturt Terrace in East Side at Alice Springs at about 2.30am (CST) when she was hit.
The 21-year-old L-plater allegedly returned a positive test for alcohol and police say he could face charges.
The deaths on New Year's Day took the national holiday road toll to 43.
* The national road toll period runs from 0001 December 23, 2012, until 2359 January 3, 2013, local times, in line with the Australia New Zealand Policing Advisory Board.
Anda sedang membaca artikel tentang
Bleak start to 2013 on roads
Dengan url
http://mesinjahitan.blogspot.com/2013/01/bleak-start-to-2013-on-roads.html
Anda boleh menyebar luaskannya atau mengcopy paste-nya
Bleak start to 2013 on roads
namun jangan lupa untuk meletakkan link
sebagai sumbernya
0 komentar:
Posting Komentar