Fed: Nine killed on nation's roads over holiday period
SYDNEY, Dec 22 AAP - Two people were killed in accidents on the nation's roads today,taking the national holiday road toll to nine.
A South Australian motorcyclist died in hospital from injuries he received in a collisionwith a van at Wingfield, in Adelaide's north, on Friday at 3.10pm (CDT).
The 27-year-old man, from Elizabeth Downs, was the first death recorded on the state'sroads over the holiday period.
In NSW, police said a pedestrian was hit by several cars while crossing the westboundlanes of the M4 at Prospect, west of Sydney, about 4am (AEDT) today.
In Queensland, seven people have died on the state's roads over the holiday period.
The deaths in that state include five people who died in a head-on collision on theBruce Highway, about 20km south of Proserpine in the state's north, early yesterday.
Police blame fatigue for the accident.
In a separate accident, an 18-year-old woman was killed in a head-on smash betweentwo cars in Dayboro, north of Brisbane, yesterday afternoon.
And a 68-year-old man was killed after his vehicle veered off the Pacific Motorwaynear the Gold Coast and hit a tree on Friday.
No road fatalities have been reported so far in WA, Victoria, Tasmania, the ACT, orthe Northern Territory.
(Eds: National road toll figures are for the period 0001 December 20 to 2359 January5 AEDT. Some states and territories have different periods.)
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