NSW: Nineteen killed on Australia's roads this Easter
Nineteen people have been killed on Australia's roads this Easter holiday weekend.
The toll has been revised from 20 because police say a man who died on Saturday suffereda heart attack before his accident.
Western Australian police say the man -- whose car hit a tree in the Perth suburb ofKenwick -- actually died from the heart attack and not from hitting the tree.
The most recent holiday road death was that of an elderly bus passenger in New South Wales.
Police say the 79-year-old man fell off his seat when a bus braked in Maitland in theHunter Valley on Thursday.
He died in hospital overnight, taking New South Wales' Easter toll to six.
South Australia has recorded its first Easter fatality -- a 17-year-old girl who wasin the back of a ute that overturned on a Port Lincoln beach on Friday night.
She died in the Royal Adelaide Hospital yesterday.
Seven people have died on Victorian roads, three in Queensland, and one each in WesternAustralia and Tasmania.
There have been no fatalities in the Northern Territory or the ACT.
(EDS: AAP's Easter road toll figures are for the period 0001 AEDT March 28 to 2359AEST April 1. Some states and territories may have different periods.)
AAP RTV jmt/wjf
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