Fifteen people have lost their lives in accidents on Australian roads over the Easter long weekend following the death of a man in a single-car rollover in Victoria.
The driver in the latest tragedy, which occurred at an intersection in Wangaratta in the state’s northeast late on Sunday, is under police guard in hospital with suspected non-life-threatening injuries.
Police say one of his three male passengers died after the car overturned and ploughed into a paddock. The other two were airlifted to hospitals in Melbourne with critical injuries.
The devastating Easter toll began with seven deaths on Good Friday.
They included four adults killed in a crash in the New South Wales Southern Tablelands and a woman in Tasmania who was a passenger in a sedan….