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Seven people dead on NSW roads since Friday

May 28, 2006 - 3:42PM

Seven people have been killed in six separate accidents on NSW roads since Friday - a worse toll than this year's four-day Easter holiday.

NSW police traffic commander Chief Superintendent John Hartley said the weekend carnage on the state's roads was shocking.

``It's a shocking number of people to die over the weekend,'' he told AAP.

``In fact, the most recent figures compiled for this year show 232 people have died on the roads which is 23 above the same period last year.''

A horror accident involving a car carrying seven teenagers and driven by a 17-year-old learner driver in country NSW claimed the life of a 16-year-old boy yesterday.

The male driver lost control of the utility, which rolled off a dirt road on a private property at Manilla, near Tamworth.

A 16-year-old boy was thrown from the car and died at the scene and the six other teenagers were taken to Manilla and Tamworth hospitals for treatment.

On Saturday, two men, both aged 26, were found dead in a car that hit a tree on a country road near Young, in the state's south-west.

A passing motorist found the driver of the car and his front seat passenger in the wreck on Back Creek Road.

A day earlier, a teenage P-plate driver was killed when his car hit a pole on Oakville Road at Oakville, north-west of Sydney. He was thrown from the vehicle and died at the scene.

Also on Friday, a 77-year-old pedestrian was killed outside a roadside seafood stall on the mid-north coast after he was run down by a car.

A 46-year-old male cyclist died today and two others were taken to hospital in a serious condition after a car ploughed into them on the Princes Highway at Engadine in Sydney's south.

The man died at the scene shortly after 9am (AEST) while a 43-year-old woman with shoulder injuries and a 41-year-old man with shoulder and suspected head injuries were taken to St George Hospital.

Also today, a man died in a two-vehicle crash which blocked northbound lanes of the F3, north of Sydney.

The crash happened shortly after 6.30am (AEST) when a southbound sedan and a van travelling north collided near the Berowra exit.

|Two other people were hospitalised with severe head, chest, pelvic and facial injuries.

Six people died in NSW over the Easter Road break, which ran from April 8 to April 12.

Supt Hartley urged drivers to slow down and take care.

``In most accidents it's the driver who is as fault so I am asking people to take their responsibility seriously,'' he said.

He said speed was one of the biggest factors contributing to road fatalities.
``In light of the upcoming long weekend, we will be having a major focus on speeding in metropolitan and rural areas,'' he warned.

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