Nine people have died on Australian roads this festive season, including two friends killed in a single-vehicle incident in NSW on Boxing Day.
A man, 31, was thrown from the vehicle and died at the scene of the crash on the NSW Central Coast. A second man, 22, was trapped in the wreckage and died before he could be released.
The crash, which occurred just before 5am (AEDT), left three other men aged 29, 22 and 27 in hospital.
Police said they hoped to speak to the injured men, all from Sydney suburb Auburn.
In Canberra, a motorcyclist died after losing control of his bike late on the evening of Christmas Day.
The 22-year-old hit a traffic island in the inner-north suburb of Lyneham about 11pm on Wednesday.
He died in Canberra Hospital.
In Perth, a 17-year-old boy died after falling off the back of a utility on Christmas evening.
Police say the boy suffered severe head injuries when he fell from the tray of the Nissan ute.
A 24-year-old man in the Northern Territory was killed after losing control of his motorcycle on a dirt road near the Todd River in Alice Springs on Christmas Day.
Two Victorian women killed in a head-on collision two days before Christmas were the first fatalities for the 2013 Christmas period.
A 69-year-old Queensland man died on Christmas Eve when his car hit a tree near Bundaberg.
Queensland Police say the death was caused by a medical condition.
On Monday night police found a man dead in a sedan spilt in two following a high-speed crash into a tree north of Moree in NSW.
The deaths take the national toll to nine, compared with 16 recorded by Boxing Day in 2012.
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.
