Sky News Australia | Christmas road death toll rises to 15 Sky News Australia Christmas road death toll rises to 15. Updated: 17:28, Saturday December 28, 2013. Christmas road death toll rises to 15. The Christmas holiday road death toll has risen to 15, following the deaths of a teenager in Tasmania and a man in his 60s in NSW. Road toll rises to 15 North-West road fatality first for Tasmania for Christmas-New Year holiday period German tourist killed in crash at Tasmania's Leven Canyon |