FED:Three more dead bring road toll to 5

AAP General News (Australia)
12-24-2011
FED:Three more dead bring road toll to 5

MELBOURNE, Dec 24 AAP - The nation's road toll has risen to five with a double fatality
in Queensland and a single death in NSW on Christmas Eve.

Two men, aged 81 and 37, died at the scene of the two-vehicle crash in Queensland,
which occurred about 7pm on the Bunya Highway at Wondai, about 240km northwest of Brisbane.

A woman travelling in the second vehicle was airlifted to a Brisbane hospital with
serious injuries, a statement from Queensland Police said.

Earlier, an 83-year-old man died after his vehicle collided with a utility about 11.55am
on the Kings Highway in Warri, NSW.

The fatalities bring the national road toll to five after the deaths of a motorcyclist
in South Australia on Saturday and a pedestrian in Victoria on Friday.

(EDS: The national road toll period runs from 0001 December 23, 2011 until 2359 January
3, 2012, local times, in line with the Australia New Zealand Policing Advisory Board.)

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