FED: National Easter Road Tolll climbs to 8
SYDNEY, April 18 AAP - The Easter's holiday national road toll reached eight todaywith accidents in Queensland and Victoria.
A 22-year-old man died in a single vehicle accident in Queensland near the border withNew South Wales.
Police said the car smashed into a tree on the New England Highway near the bordertown of Clifton, bringing Queensland's road toll this Easter to two.
Victoria had its second road fatality with a woman in her late 60s dying after hercar ran off the Melton Highway at Hillside, in the state's east and overturning at about5.45 tonight.
Yesterday four people died on Western Australia's roads.
New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, the Northern Territory and the ACT remainedfatality free tonight.
In New South Wales 80 people were injured in 266 road crashes and 60 people chargedwith drink-driving offences in the first 24 hours of the festive season.
More than 2,600 people have been caught speeding.
(Eds: AAP's Easter road toll figures are for the period 0001 April 17 to 2359 April 21.
Some states and territories may have different periods).
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KEYWORD: TOLL NATIONAL SECOND NIGHTLEAD
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