National holiday road toll rises to 42

It's been a fatality-free Boxing Day on the roads of New South Wales, but the
national holiday toll climbed to 42 as lives were lost in other parts of Australia.

In Melbourne, an elderly man injured in a two-car collision in Melbourne on
Christmas Day, died in hospital on Saturday morning.
The 87-year-old was a passenger in a car travelling along Terrara Road, Vermont
South, around 5.40pm when it was hit by another vehicle.
His death takes the Victorian holiday toll to 11, two behind NSW which heads the
grim list with 13 dead.
In Brisbane, a male driver died in a single-vehicle accident at Tarragindi on
Brisbane's southside at about 2.50pm on Saturday.
His death takes Queensland road toll to six.
A 17-year-old driver critically injured in a crash in northern Tasmania on Tuesday
has died in hospital.
The man, from Port Sorell, was involved in a crash at Elizabeth Town, which also
killed a man in his 50s.
The younger man died in hospital on Saturday, bringing the Tasmanian road toll for
the holiday season to three.
South Australia's holiday road toll stands at two after a 55 year-old woman died on
Christmas Day after her car hit a tree on the Dukes Highway, near Tintinara.
Western Australia's toll remains at six, while the Northern Territory's is just one,
and no fatalities have been recorded in the ACT.
(EDS: National road toll figures are for the period 0001 December 18 to 2359 January
3. Some states and territories have different periods.)