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The Melbourne–Voyager collision, also known as the Melbourne–Voyager incident or simply the Voyager incident, was a collision between two warships of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN); the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne and the destroyer HMAS Voyager. On the evening of 10 February 1964, the two ships were performing manoeuvres off Jervis Bay.
Melbourne hit Evans amidships at 3:15 am, cutting the destroyer in two. [10] The paths taken by HMAS Melbourne and USS Frank E. Evans in the minutes leading up to the collision. Melbourne stopped immediately after the collision and deployed her boats, liferafts and lifebuoys, before carefully maneuvering alongside the stern section of Evans. [11]
Project Graham (also Graham and Meet Graham) is a lifelike figure depicting what a human would look like if the species evolved to survive car crashes.Created as part of a road safety campaign for the Transport Accident Commission (TAC) of Victoria, Australia, [1] it was meant to symbolize the vulnerability of human bodies in such accidents.
By the time 5264 arrived at Kensington at 9:30 p.m. it was only 113 seconds behind 5262, putting both trains in grave danger. Asking the driver of 5262 to attempt to outrun the runaway would have placed the passenger-carrying train at great risk of a derailment, meaning Metrol's only option was to divert the runaway before it could collide with 5262. [11]
After the truck hit the officers, Pusey filmed them for several minutes with vulgar commentary as they lay dying, before fleeing. [1] [2] The crash was the biggest loss of police lives in a single incident in Victoria Police's history. Justice Paul Coghlan stated that the crash had "shocked the public conscience". [3]
Cans of spray paint were found close to their body. [86] [87] 29 August 2011: Australia Fall Died 17 A person died after they fell 15 metres (50 ft) from a road bridge. It is speculated they had been spraying graffiti on the side of the bridge, as a backpack was found with the body that had spray cans inside. [88] [89] 11 January 2012: Australia
The Queen Street massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 8 December 1987 at Australia Post offices on 191 Queen Street in Melbourne, Victoria.. Frank Vitkovic, a former tennis player and law school withdrawee, entered the building on the pretext of visiting a friend, and opened fire on office workers at random with an illegally modified M1 carbine, killing eight and injuring five.
[10] [1] [11] Victoria Police officers from the Critical Incident Response Team shot the driver in the right arm and also tasered him before his arrest. [ 12 ] [ 11 ] [ 1 ] A child and two adults died at the scene, [ 13 ] another man died in hospital before the end of the day, and a three-month-old baby boy died the next day in the evening. [ 14 ]