Archive for April, 2009

Recent backpacker death

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

A British backpacker has been killed on a beach in Australia after the vehicle he was travelling in swerved to avoid an incoming wave and rolled 160 feet.

Ian Davy, 22, from West Yorkshire, along with an Italian woman died in the crash on Fraser Island in Queensland.

Eleven European tourists were in the Toyota Landcruiser when it lost control on 75 Mile beach.