WA: 13-year-old boy killed in collision at Kalbarri

AAP General News (Australia)
12-26-2007
WA: 13-year-old boy killed in collision at Kalbarri

SYDNEY, Dec 26 AAP - A 13-year-old boy has been killed in a collision between a four-wheel
drive and car in the Kalbarri National Park, about 500km north of Perth.

The teenager, sitting in the rear of a Mazda coupe, was killed in the collision with
a Landcruiser at about 3.15pm (WDT), police said.

The crash occurred on an unsealed road leading to the Z-Bend lookout.

The boy was taken to Kalbarri Health Centre, where preparations were made to airlift
him to the nearby town of Geraldton.

However, he died at the scene.

No other details of the accident were available.

The boy's death is the fourth in Western Australia since the beginning of the holiday
period last Friday.

Early Friday morning, a 45-year-old man from Highgate died when his car collided head-on
with a truck on the Brand Highway, north of Perth.

On Friday night, a 60-year-old male pedestrian was killed after he was hit by a car
while walking alongside a road in Sawyers Valley, east of Perth.

And on Saturday afternoon, a 24-year-old male motorcyclist died after running into
a road sign and colliding with trees at Hillarys, in Perth's northern suburbs.

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