FED:National road toll hits 37

AAP General News (Australia)
12-31-2010
FED:National road toll hits 37

The deaths of two children in a horrific accident in the Northern Territory outback
has pushed the national road toll for the Christmas holidays to 37.

Four more young people were injured in this afternoon's crash on the Lake Elliott access
road .. 250 kilometres north of Tennant Creek .. including a 13-year-old believed to
have been driving the utility.

Hours earlier in New South Wales .. a tanker driver was incinerated when he lost control
of his vehicle which rolled before bursting into flames.

The tanker overturned on the Pacific Highway at Tintenbar .. near Ballina.

It took about 100 firefighters to extinguish the two tanks which were loaded with 40
thousand litres of petrol.

In Victoria .. a 44 year-old woman was killed in a fiery crash on the Monash Freeway
at Doveton in the early hours of this morning .. while another woman .. believed to be
aged in her 60s .. was killed in a two car collision on the Pyrenees Highway.

(AAP's national Christmas road toll figures are for the period 0001 December 17 to
2359 January 3. Some states and territories have different periods.)

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