NSW: P-plater killed while taking car for first drive: police

AAP General News (Australia)
12-16-2008
NSW: P-plater killed while taking car for first drive: police

SYDNEY, Dec 16 AAP - A Sydney P-plater has been killed while taking a car he was restoring
for what's believed to have been its first drive, police say.

The 24-year-old man was killed after his unregistered car ran off the road and into
trees at Newport, on Sydney's northern beaches, police said.

He took the 1971 model Datsun 1600 - which he had been restoring - for what's believed
to have been its first drive about 6pm (AEDT) on Monday.

As the car was travelling west along Crescent Road, the driver lost control, causing
the vehicle to run off the road and crash into two trees, police said.

The man was airlifted to Royal North Shore Hospital for emergency treatment of multiple
injuries but was pronounced dead on arrival.

A 20-year-old man, who was a passenger in the vehicle, was taken by ambulance to the
same hospital for treatment of superficial injuries and had since been released, police
said on Tuesday.

Initial inquiries suggested speed was a factor, police said.

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