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The national Christmas holiday road toll has climbed to 17 after a 46-year-old man died in a road accident in far north Queensland.
Police say a car left the Gillies Highway at Gordonvale, south of Cairns, last night.
The latest death brings Queensland’s toll to five.
Five people have been killed in New South Wales.
A 64-year-old woman died when the car she was travelling in crashed into a power pole at Blakehurst in Sydney’s south.
Victoria’s road toll rose to three when two people died at Princetown in Victoria’s south-west.
There have been two deaths in South Australia, and one each in Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
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