NSW: Holiday road toll now five after truck crash at Coffs
22 Dec 2008 6:00 AM
The Christmas road toll in NSW has increased to five .. after a driver was killed when his semi-trailer rolled on the Pacific Highway near Coffs Harbour.
Police say the truck rolled at the intersection of the Pacific Highway and Diggers Beach Road .. near the Big Banana tourist attraction .. just after 10.45 last night (AEDT).
A police spokesman says emergency services found the 34-year-old driver from Queensland unconscious in the truck's crushed cabin .. but he died before rescue crews could reach him.
The death was the second on New South Wales roads yesterday .. after a motorcyclist was killed in a collision with a bus on the NSW mid-north coast.
Police say the 38-year-old .. from Lemon Tree Passage .. died at the scene after colliding with a bus on The Lakes Way .. south of Forster.
The latest fatality brings the state's holiday road toll to five .. and the national toll to 14.
(EDS: National road toll figures are for the period 0001 December 19 to 2359 January 2. Some states and territories have different periods).
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