Easter road toll stands at 11

The death of a motorcyclist in the Northern Territory has taken the nation’s Easter road toll to 11.

The 47-year-old man was reported missing on Sunday afternoon after he failed to return home from a ride.

A group of quad bike riders found the man’s body on a dirt track off Gunn Point Road, Howard Springs, southeast of Darwin.

Police say the man was thrown from the bike when he lost control on a bend.

The death took the NT’s 2012 road toll to nine.

Two people died last Saturday night at Alice Springs when a disqualified driver sped from police after entering a roundabout in the wrong direction.

A short time later the car slammed into a power pole and burst into flames, killing the 27-year-old male driver and a female passenger.

On Sunday night in Victoria, a 24-year-old man died in a single-car crash in Geelong, taking that state’s Easter road toll to three.

He died instantly when his car left the Portarlington-Geelong Road near Moolap Station Road and struck a power pole.

Earlier on Sunday a four-year-old boy died when struck by a car as he tried to cross a road at Port Elliot, south of Adelaide.

A doctor and nurse who were nearby tried frantically to resuscitate the child but he died at the scene from head injuries.

Elsewhere, separate crashes claimed three lives in NSW, with two deaths each in Victoria and one in Queensland.

A female motorcyclist died after her machine collided with a car in the southeastern Queensland town of Birnam about 10.50am (AEST) on Sunday.

Earlier on the same day, a 45-year-old woman was killed when her car veered off the road in Woodenbong, northern NSW, about 1.30am.

Also in that state’s north, a man died after his car left the Kamilaroi Highway and struck a tree at Curlewis at about 5.15am on Saturday.

On Friday, a 61-year-old died when his car ran off the road in Leppington, in Sydney’s west.

And in Victoria, a man and a woman in their 30s died when their slammed into a tree at Ringwood, in Melbourne’s east, about 3.30am on Saturday.

The Easter toll, which began at the stroke of midnight on Thursday and runs to the end of Monday, coincides with Operation Crossroads, a national police blitz on the roads over the long weekend.

The high-visibility operation sees police targeting excessive speed, fatigue, driver inattention and drink and drug-affected driving.

A total 15 deaths occurred on Australian roads last Easter.

(EDS: The Easter road toll figures are for the period 0001 April 5 to 2359 April 9)

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