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This is a list of motor vehicle deaths in Australia by year. It shows the annual number of road fatalities (road deaths or Road toll) per capita per year, per vehicle and per vehicle-km in the year the data was collected. The list includes all road users such as drivers, passengers, pedestrians, motorcyclists and cyclists.
The 2025 Queensland floods refer to significant ongoing flooding that is impacting the northeast Australia state of Queensland in late January and early February 2025. The disaster resulted in at least two fatalities and prompted mass evacuation orders in Queensland's coastal regions. [2] [1]
The 2019–20 Australian bushfire season, [a] or Black Summer, was one of the most intense and catastrophic fire seasons on record in Australia.It included a period of bushfires in many parts of Australia, which, due to its unusual intensity, size, duration, and uncontrollable dimension, was considered a megafire by media at the time.
Following the crash the truck caught fire and the driver was pulled from the truck by bystanders. Ammonium nitrate leaked onto the Bruce Highway, a major highway in Queensland. [5] First responders ordered an evacuation of a 2.5 kilometre radius of the crash, [3] and decided to not extinguish the fire because of the inherent risk. [5]
Pages in category "Road incident deaths in Queensland" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
On the same day the Willi Willi Road fire broke out of containment lines in Willi Willi National Park west of Kempsey, New South Wales, which then burnt over 30,000 hectares (74,131 acres). Fire crews reported that the fire exhibited "extraordinary" behavior similar to the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season. Numerous properties are believed ...
The outlook for the season was below average in coastal parts of south-eastern Australia due to high rainfall associated with the continued La Niña climatic pattern. Elevated fire danger was forecast in Central Australia , inland New South Wales , western Tasmania , southern Queensland and Western Australia , particularly toward the end of the ...
Joined with the Good Good fire and the Werri Berri fire [4] Bees Nest New South Wales Armidale Regional Council. Clarence Valley Council. August 31, 2019 [5] 100 000+ hectares [6] Earliest mega-fire of the Black Summer (beginning in the winter of 2019) [7] [8] [9] Big Jack Mountain New South Wales Bega Valley Shire 19,633 hectares (as of 15 ...