FED: National road toll rises to 32

AAP General News (Australia)
12-29-2001
FED: National road toll rises to 32

SYDNEY, Dec 29 AAP - The national Christmas-New Year road toll has risen to 32 with
the death of an American man in NSW.

The man was killed and another man critically injured in a hit-and-run crash in Sydney's
west last night.

Police said today that two men were about to get into a car on Aquilina Drive in Plumpton
when a car crashed into theirs at about 10.15pm (AEDT).

A 52-year-old US man died at the scene while a 49-year-old Plumpton man is this morning
in a critical condition in Westmead Hospital.

The driver fled the scene and police have seized a car in relation to the incident.

The death takes the NSW holiday road toll to 13.

In other states, Queensland has suffered seven road deaths and South Australia and
Western Australia have each recorded two fatalities.

Roads in Victoria have claimed five lives, while in the Northern Territory three people
have died over the Christmas holiday break.

The ACT and Tasmania have remained fatality free.





(Eds: National road toll figures are for the period 0001 (AEDT) December 21 to 2359
(AEDT) January 6. Some states and territories have different periods.)

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