Vic: Road deaths down, but country roads problem

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Vic: Road deaths down, but country roads problem

EDS: Reissuing based on fresh information from police, adds one more death to the 2002 toll.

Victoria's regional roads were the killers last year, with seven per cent more peopledying on country roads than in 2001, despite an overall drop.

There was a 25 per cent decrease in road fatalities in metropolitan Melbourne, while188 people were killed in country Victoria -- 11 more than the previous year.

The state's annual road toll, which closed at midnight last night, was …