Easter national road toll rises to seven

The death of another motorcyclist has pushed Victoria's Easter holiday road toll to
three - and the national toll to seven - despite the biggest police road blitz in
the state's history.
More than 4000 police throughout Victoria are patrolling the roads and over 5000
motorists have been fined.
But it hasn't stopped Victoria from leading the nation's road toll.
The latest death came just after 11am (AEDT) on Saturday when a 22-year-old man died
200 metres from his home after his motorcycle hit a tree and a parked car at
Wantirna in Melbourne's east.
That followed a double fatality where two riders collided in a head-on crash near
Shepparton on Friday.
Eighteen motorcyclists have been killed in Victoria in 2010 compared to eight for
the same time last year.
A frustrated Inspector Greg Parr says it has been a disappointing start to the
Easter break.
"We've got three dead in the space of a couple of days - three motorcyclists, which
is even more distressing - I'm not sure what the way forward is for the rest of
Easter," Insp Parr said.
"They are killing themselves way out of their proportion.
"There is no justification or excuse for it."
On Friday in the ACT, a 46-year-old motorcyclist died after his bike left Uriarra
Road, north of Cotter Dam, and went down an embankment.
The rest of the country had not recorded any Easter Saturday fatalities and the
nation's toll stands at seven, with one death in NSW, one in South Australia and one
in Western Australia adding to the total.