ACT: Man's death starts ACT Easter road toll

AAP General News (Australia)
04-10-2009
ACT: Man's death starts ACT Easter road toll

SYDNEY, April 10 AAP - One man is dead after a single vehicle crash in the northeast
of the ACT, police say.

The man, believed to be aged in his 20s, was the sole occupant of a car which crashed
at Uriarra sometime overnight.

"Sometime overnight a sedan travelling southbound on Uriarra Road has left the road,
gone through a fence and rolled," police said in a statement.

"Police were notified of the collision by a passer-by who noticed the incident some
time after the event.

"The driver, travelling alone in the vehicle, died at the scene."

The death is the first for the ACT during the Easter holiday period.



(EDS: AAP's Easter road toll figures are for the period 0001 April 9 to 2359 April
13. Some states and territories may have different periods.)



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