Australian holiday road toll climbs to 14

Fourteen people have died on Australia's roads in the first four days of the Christmas holidays, with five deaths on Boxing Day alone.

Police tape restricts access to a street

Nine people have died on Australia's roads in the first three days of the Christmas holidays. (AAP)

Australia's holiday road toll has climbed to 14 after five people were killed on the country's roads on Boxing Day.

A motorcyclist aged in his 30s died after being thrown from his bike at Mount Nebo in Queensland about 12.45 pm on Boxing Day.

Police say the rider was travelling on Mount Nebo Road towards Mount Glorious when he lost control and crashed off the road, dying at the scene.

In Richmond, western Sydney, a 78-year-old woman was killed while trying to cross the road on Saturday afternoon.

Earlier, another female pedestrian died after being struck by a car on the Newell Highway in the NSW Central Highlands about 6.30am.

Also in NSW, a 26-year-old woman was killed in a three-car crash near Yass in the state's Southern Tablelands.

The woman died about noon after the small sedan she was driving crashed into two oncoming cars on Lachlan Valley Way, 5km west of the Hume Highway.

The two others involved in the head-on collision were treated for minor injuries and underwent mandatory blood and urine testing.

In country Victoria, a man in his 50s was killed after a van carrying six people slammed into a tree on the Hume Highway in Boho at 1.40pm.

The van's male driver and another passenger are both fighting for their lives after being critically injured in the crash.

In Western Australia, a nine-year-old girl was killed on Christmas Day after a ute crashed and flipped on the Coolgardie-Esperance Highway, south of Norseman, about 5.30pm.

A woman was also killed in a two-car crash in Canberra on Christmas Day, just hours after a 43-year-old man died in hospital after being struck by two cars in NSW on Christmas Eve.

The Northern Territory is the only state or territory not to record any road deaths since the holiday toll started on Wednesday.

*The national road toll period runs from 0001 December 23, 2015 until 2359 January 3, 2016, local times.


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Published 26 December 2015 3:59am
Updated 26 December 2015 10:06pm
Source: AAP


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