A 69-YEAR-OLD man who was killed when his car crashed into a tree northwest of Bundaberg has become the first fatality on Queensland roads in the Christmas holiday period.
His death near Avondale at around 12.30pm (AEST) on Tuesday takes the national road toll for the holiday period to four.
Police said a member of the public reported the crash and the driver and sole occupant, believed to be a local man, died at the scene.
The death follows that of a man in northern NSW who was killed when the car he was in also hit a tree and split in two during a police pursuit.
A second man in the Holden sedan was critically injured in the high speed crash about 4km north of Moree at about 11pm (AEDT) on Monday.
Police said officers were attempting to catch up with the car after it passed a stationary RBT site on the Carnarvon Highway.
The death was the first in NSW for the holiday period and followed the deaths of two women in a two-car collision on the Calder Highway near Ouyen in Victoria's northwest at about 1pm on Monday.
* The national road toll period runs from 0001 December 23, 2013 until 2359 January 3, 2014, local times, in line with the Australia New Zealand Policing Advisory Board.
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