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Sun, 12/28/2008 - 16:45
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National holiday road toll rises to 39

The national holiday road toll remains at 39.
The latest fatality occurred in Queensland on Sunday morning, when a car crashed into a tree in Brisbane, killing a woman.
The accident at Cashmere, in Brisbane's northern suburbs, took Queensland's holiday toll to seven.
In Victoria, one of two cyclists struck by a car on Christmas Eve has died in a Melbourne hospital.
Sean Brindle, 35, from Western Australia, died in The Alfred Hospital on Saturday night after he and his brother were knocked off their bikes by a car in Beach Road, Mentone.
Victoria's holiday road toll now stands at 11.
West Australian police added another victim to their holiday toll on Sunday - a child who died on Christmas Eve after a car rollover the previous day in Narrogin, in WA's wheatbelt region south-east of Perth.
Added to the deaths of two motorcyclists, Western Australia's holiday road toll stands at nine.
Victoria still top's the holiday toll with 11 deaths, with WA next with nine and NSW on eight. There have been seven deaths in Queensland, three in the Northern Territory and one in South Australia.
No road fatalities have been recorded in Tasmania or the Australian Capital Territory.
FATALITIES
QLD - 7
NSW - 8
ACT - 0
VIC -11
TAS - 0
SA - 1
NT - 3
WA - 9
TOTAL - 39
(EDS: National road toll figures are for the period 0001 December 19 to 2359 January
2. Some states and territories have different periods.)


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