AAP General News (Australia)
12-31-2005
WA: Double fatality brings national road toll to 40
Australia's holiday road toll has risen to 40 after a motorcycle rider and his female
passenger were killed north of Perth.
The 25-year-old male rider and his female passenger .. aged in her early 20s .. were
killed when their motorbike collided with a car on an intersection north of Perth this
afternoon.
The driver of the car is uninjured.
The deaths bring the state's holiday road toll to seven.
Forty people have now been killed on the nation's roads this Christmas-New Year period
.. eight of them today.
(EDS: AAP's Xmas/New Year road toll figures are for the period 0001 December 23 to
2359 January 6. Some state and territory police forces may use different road toll periods.)
AAP RTV nf/wz/ibw
KEYWORD: TOLL WA (PERTH)
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