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Thorough investigation underway into Bruce Highway crash
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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7/2/2024
The Queensland government says a thorough investigation is underway into the bus crash on the Bruce Highway that killed three people and left two others with critical injuries.
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It's brought road safety to the fore yesterday.
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We know the opposition was criticising the government for not keeping Bruce Highway maintenance
00:09
up to date.
00:10
The government said it was too early to say whether that was a significant contributor
00:14
in this crash.
00:15
But what we understand is that overall in Queensland, car accidents are up.
00:20
Compared to this time last year, it's up about 14 per cent.
00:24
So there is a wider discussion happening at the moment about, you know, obviously there's
00:29
more traffic on the road, it's school holidays, it's caravan season here in North Queensland.
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And for your viewers as well that aren't from Queensland, the Bruce Highway is actually
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the longest road in the state.
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It goes all the way from Brisbane to Cairns.
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And so this is a really significant, you know, roadway and a significant crash.
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And this sort of crash has people worried.
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Yesterday, we spoke to a number of people along that highway caravan, people in caravans.
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We spoke to a pub owner at Gumloo who said she actually lost one of her own staff to
01:00
a crash on the Bruce Highway.
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And then we also spoke to some Greyhound passengers who were on that service immediately after
01:08
the bus that crashed.
01:09
They were stuck on the roads for 26 hours with those delays in traffic.
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Here's how they felt about bus travel after hearing the news.
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For like maybe seven hours, just in that little village where there was nothing to do, which
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was OK.
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I mean, just waiting for news.
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You kind of wonder how safe it is for these coaches to be going around these tiny, tiny
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roads like some of the tiny roundabouts they drive around and they end up kind of going
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up the middle of it.
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Yeah, it does worry me a little bit sometimes.
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It's a big shock because so many people died and are, I don't know, yeah, are injured.
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And so just an update, that crash is still under a major investigation.
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Yesterday it came out that early investigations are indicating that the bus was on the wrong
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side of the road.
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So how that came to be, the circumstances that led to that crash, will all form part
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of that investigation.
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And just an update on some of the survivors of that crash, two remain here in Townsville
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University Hospital in a critical condition and two others remain in hospital as well
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and they're in a stable condition.
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