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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]
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.
A435 Alcester Road, near Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom Collision with truck. Hailwood's daughter Michelle was also killed. George Hainsworth: 1893 1950 57 years Canadian ice hockey player car Gravenhurst, Ontario: Head-on collision with truck. Veikko Hakulinen: 1925 2003 78 years Finnish skier pedestrian Valkeakoski ...
The bus driver pleaded guilty to dangerous and negligent driving occasioning death, and was sentenced to 32 years in prison with a non-parole period of 24 years. It was the worst Australian road crash since 1994 when twelve people were killed when a bus overturned near Boondall, Queensland. [1] [2]
The Wodonga level crossing accident was a vehicle-train crash that occurred on 8 May 1943 when a passenger steam train collided with a bus carrying thirty-four Australian Army personnel at the Tallangatta Road level crossing on the Cudgewa railway line near Wodonga, Victoria, Australia. [1] [2] [3]
Road accident: Penshurst, Victoria: 6: 2011 Nov 11: A car and truck collided and subsequently caught fire at an intersection near Penshurst. Four occupants of the car died at the scene, along with the truck driver, and a fifth occupant of the car died later in hospital. [312] Air accident: Near Gympie, Queensland: 6: 2012 Oct 1
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The ABC has described the road as "crucial to the national economy" but, reporting 550 crashes in 10 years, said that it had been likened to roads in the Third World. "Someone is killed or seriously injured on the Peak Downs Highway on average about once every two-and-a-half weeks," it said. [ 3 ]