FED: National Easter road toll at 22 as drivers head home

AAP General News (Australia)
04-09-2007
FED: National Easter road toll at 22 as drivers head home

With thousands of drivers heading home this evening at the end of the Easter break
.. the national road toll for the holiday weekend stands at 22.

Four people have died today.

The latest was a teenage boy who died in hospital early this afternoon .. the day after
his motorcycle collided with a parked van on the Gold Coast.

In the early hours of this morning three defence personnel involved in counter-terrorism
training died .. after their car ran off a bridge into the sea south-west of Melbourne.

Police say the rental car veered off the causeway halfway between Queenscliff and Swan
Island .. a high-security military exercise area.

The Defence Department says the men weren't involved in a specific training activity
at the time of the crash.

Victoria leads the toll count with nine deaths .. there have been six in New South
Wales .. four in Queensland .. two in Western Australia .. and one in the ACT.





(EDS: AAP's Easter road toll figures are for the period 0001 April 5 to 2359 April
9. Some states and territories may have different periods.)

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