Qld: Crash claims girl's life on Sunshine Coast

AAP General News (Australia)
12-27-2007
Qld: Crash claims girl's life on Sunshine Coast

EDS: Changes from teenager to 12-year-ol girl in first par and two to three occupants
in car after updated police information. AAP's Xmas/New Year road toll figures are for
the period 0001 December 21 to 2359 January 4. Some state and territory police forces
may use different road toll periods.



BRISBANE, Dec 27 AAP - A 12-year-old girl is dead and a man in a critical condition
after a vehicle hit a concrete pylon on the Sunshine Coast.

Police said the vehicle the girl and two adults were in veered into the pylon on Caloundra
Road, Caloundra, east of the Bruce Highway, around 2.30pm (AEST) today.

The girl died in an ambulance on the way to Nambour hospital.

The 47-year-old male driver was airlifted from Nambour hospital to Brisbane tonight
with life threatening internal and head injuries.

A 47-year-old woman is in a stable condition at Nambour hospital with internal and
spinal injuries.

The accident took Queensland's holiday road toll to two.

Since the state's Christmas road safety campaign began last Friday, 153 people have
been injured in traffic incidents.

Queensland police have detected more than 12,000 speeding motorists and conducted more
than 57,000 breath tests, charging 451 people for drink-driving.

Another 182 new roadside drug tests have been performed, with results yet to be analysed.

Premier Anna Bligh was today in the Gold Coast hinterland to highlight how easily a
driver can lose control of a car in wet weather.

Ms Bligh visited the Holden Performance Driving Centre (HPDC) in Norwell, where she
was sent sliding sideways during a display.

"We've seen a lot of deaths on our roads this year," Ms Bligh told reporters.

"While the performance in the last couple of days has been very heartening, we've seen
far too many deaths this year and all of us should take this as a timely reminder to drive
carefully, drive slower and don't drive under any influence."

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