FED: Twelve die on roads as Easter break begins

AAP General News (Australia)
04-02-1999
FED: Twelve die on roads as Easter break begins

Twelve people have died on Australian roads in an horrific start to the Easter holidays.

The national toll for the first 24-hours of the four-day Easter break is almost in line
with last year's final Easter toll count, which stood at 15.

Nine people were killed in New South Wales yesterday, including a two-year-old girl who was
hit by a car and killed as she followed her mother and five other young children across the
busy New England Highway in Maitland, north of Sydney.

And two people died on South Australian roads yesterday, doubling the result of the state's
1998 Easter road toll.

Victoria has recorded its first road death for the holiday period, after a man died when
his car hit a pole in Melbourne's east early today.







(EDS: AAP's Easter road toll figures are for the period 0001 THURSDAY APRIL 1 to 2359
MONDAY APRIL 5. Some states and territories have different toll periods).

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