AAP General News (Australia)
12-27-2001
Qld: Toowoomba teenager dies, taking state road toll to six
BRISBANE, Dec 27 AAP - Queensland's Christmas holiday road toll rose to six today with
the death of a 19-year-old Toowoomba woman near Mitchell in the state's south-west.
The woman was getting a lift home with a Charleville family who all survived the accident,
police said.
Constable Sebastian Pollock of Mitchell police said the woman died when the family's
van flipped several times, about five kms west of Mitchell.
The van came to rest on its wheels, leaving the 38-year-old driver, 17-month-old twins
and their seven-year-old brother uninjured.
But the 37-year-old mother and her four-year-old son were seriously injured and were
later airlifted to Brisbane, both in critical conditions.
The van was travelling along the Warrego Highway towards Toowoomba when the accident
happened at about 8.20am (AEST).
The uninjured family members were tonight in the care of relatives.
Const Pollock said investigations were continuing into the cause of the crash.
Today's accident was the first road fatality in Queensland since the deaths of a 50-year-old
woman and her 10-month old granddaughter following an accident on the Cunningham Highway
at Maryvale, south west of Brisbane, on Christmas Day.
A total of 11 people died over the Christmas-New Year road toll period in Queensland last year.
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