FED: National road toll rises to 34 with 1 death in NSW

AAP General News (Australia)
12-29-2001
FED: National road toll rises to 34 with 1 death in NSW

SYDNEY, Dec 29 AAP - The national holiday road toll stood at 34 today after a teenage
boy died from injuries sustained in an accident early on Christmas Day.

Police said the 15-year-old died in Wagga Base Hospital in NSW yesterday afternoon.

He was struck by a car at Leeton in the state's southwest about 4am on Christmas Day.

A young driver and an American pedestrian were killed in NSW overnight.

Police believed the young male car driver went over an embankment and hit a tree on
Hawkesbury Road in the Blue Mountains.

Earlier, the 52-year-old American man was killed and another man critically injured
in a hit-and-run crash in Plumpton, in Sydney's west.

Fifteen people have been killed on the roads in NSW since the holiday period began.

There have been seven road deaths in Queensland, five in Victoria, three in the Northern
Territory and two each in South Australia and Western Australia.

The ACT and Tasmania remain fatality-free.



(Eds: National road toll figures are for the period 0001 (AEDT) December 21 to 2359
(AEDT) January 6. Some states and territories have different periods.)

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