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March 30th, 2013 
A MOTORCYCLIST has died and a trail bike rider is in a serious condition after two separate crashes in Queensland on Friday.
Four people have died on Queensland roads this Easter, the largest number of any state, and the national Easter holiday toll stands at 12.
A 41-year-old man was killed when his motorcycle struck a tree in state forest in southeast Queensland.
Police say the Maroochydore man lost control on a bend in the Mount Binga State Forest, north of Toowoomba, at about 10am (AEST) on Friday.
And a 36-year-old man was airlifted to hospital with head injuries after falling from his trail bike.
The RACQ Central Queensland Rescue Helicopter service flew to the man’s property at Flaggy Rock, south of Mackay, about 6.40pm (AEST) on Friday.
The Carmilla man is in a serious but stable condition in the Mackay Base Hospital.
Two women died in a head-on collision on the Kennedy Highway near Mareeba in far north Queensland on Friday night.
Earlier, a police officer was killed in a smash at Georgetown, also in the state’s far north.
In South Australia, a 17-year-old boy has died after a car carrying five passengers crashed just before midnight on Friday near Balaklava, north of Adelaide.
The 17-year-old female driver is being questioned.
The other passengers in the car, all teenage girls aged between 14 and 17 years, received non-life threatening injuries.
The boy’s death brought South Australia’s Easter holiday road toll to three, while NSW and Victoria have each recorded two deaths and Western Australia one.
No deaths have been recorded in Tasmania, the ACT or the Northern Territory.
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