Qld: State's road toll rises to four

AAP General News (Australia)
04-17-2006
Qld: State's road toll rises to four

BRISBANE, April 17 AAP - Queensland's Easter road toll has risen to four with the death
of an elderly woman struck by a car in Townsville.

The 78-year-old was walking along Landsborough Street, North Ward, with a 16-year-old
girl when a station wagon veered out of control and crashed into the pair about 6pm (AEST)
today, police said.

The woman was taken to hospital but died a short time later. The girl was also injured
but her condition was not believed to be life-threatening, police said.

The 31-year-old male driver of the station wagon was being treated for shock.

The woman's death, which takes Queensland's Easter road toll to four, follows a similar
tragedy yesterday in which a 79-year-old male pedestrian was killed.

The man was hit by a station wagon in Howard Street, Burrum Heads, near Hervey Bay,
about 6.35am (AEST), police said. He died in Royal Brisbane Hospital today.

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(EDS: AAP's Easter road toll figures are for the period 0001 April 13 to 2359 April
17. Some states and territories may have different periods.)



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