Three more people have been killed on Australian roads, lifting the holiday road toll to 18. Source: AAP
THE Christmas holiday road death toll has risen to 18, with the latest victims including a cyclist who collided with a ute and a woman whose car smashed into a tree.
The cyclist, 21, died in Tasmania after he collided with the ute on the West Tamar Highway in Launceston on Sunday morning.
The death of the Trevallyn man is the second road fatality in Tasmania during the holiday period.
In NSW, a 69-year-old man was killed after losing control of his motorbike when he hit a gravel embankment at Khancoban, near the border of NSW and Victoria, on Sunday morning.
The man, who was riding near his son on another motorbike, died at the scene, with the death taking NSW's road toll to six.
A 31-year-old woman died in a car crash southeast of Perth on Saturday night.
She was a front passenger in a white Holden Commodore sedan that was travelling from Narrogin to Williams about 6.45pm (WST) when it left the road and hit a large tree at Minigin.
The woman and the 30-year-old male driver were trapped in the car and had to be freed by emergency workers, but she died at the scene.
The driver was critically injured and airlifted to Royal Perth Hospital.
Two people have died on WA roads this holiday period.
The national road toll period runs from midnight on December 23, 2013, until midnight on January 3, 2014, local times, in line with the Australia New Zealand Policing Advisory Board.
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