Fed: Christmas road toll climbs to 13

AAP General News (Australia)
12-25-2007
Fed: Christmas road toll climbs to 13

Australian's appear to have heeded authorities' calls to take care on the nation's
roads .. with no new fatalities reported on today's Christmas Day.

Prime Minister KEVIN RUDD asked drivers to be careful yesterday .. recalling his own
father's road death.

On the day the PM made his plea .. the nation's Christmas holiday road toll had climbed
to 13 .. and it remained at that number tonight.

Victoria leads the nation's road toll with four fatalities .. after a woman died in
a head-on collision in the state's north yesterday afternoon.

Three motorists have died on Western Australian roads since the holiday road toll period
began on Friday.

Two people on roads in South Australia and New South Wales .. and one each in Queensland
and the ACT.

Tasmania and the Northern Territory remain fatality-free.





EDS: AAP's Xmas/New Year road toll figures are for the period 0001 December 21 to 2359
January 4. Some state and territory police forces may use different road toll periods.





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