Qld: Passenger dies in car crash

AAP General News (Australia)
12-23-2006
Qld: Passenger dies in car crash

A 29-year-old man has been killed .. when a four-wheel-drive vehicle rolled in far
north Queensland.

Police say the man was the front seat passenger in the vehicle which lost control around
three yesterday afternoon (AEST) on the Peninsula Development Road .. north of Coen.

There were five people in the vehicle including the 19-year-old female driver and another
female passenger who were both injured and flown to Cairns Hospital.

Two other passengers escaped injury.

The death is Queensland's first for the Christmas road toll period.

AAP RTV rl/cp

KEYWORD: TOLL QLD (BRISBANE)

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