Investigators are yet to find what caused a horrific clang betwixt a Greyhound autobus and a car towing a caravan that near 3 women dormant and dozens much injured.
The collision occurred connected the Bruce Highway adjacent the Wilson Creek Rest Area, betwixt Gumlu and Wangaratta, successful bluish Queensland, astatine 12.50pm connected Sunday.
Some 33 radical were connected the inter-city Greyhound autobus travelling betwixt Bowen and Townsville. Two radical were successful the 4WD that was towing the caravan.
The 3 women killed, and 27 passengers injured were each connected committee the bus, with those wrong the 4WD unharmed.
Two men, aged 23 and 24, stay warring for their lives connected Monday morning, portion details of the deceased are yet to beryllium released.
Queensland Police Superintendent Graeme Paine said investigators volition beryllium interviewing much witnesses arsenic they enactment to find the origin of the crash.
'We've collected a important magnitude of grounds from the scene. As we process that grounds and interrogation further witnesses, we expect getting a clearer representation of precisely however it occurred,' helium told Sunrise connected Monday morning, adding specializer clang investigators person already forensically examined the scene.
Superintendent Paine declined to corroborate whether the autobus was astatine fault, but said each passengers would person by instrumentality been required to beryllium wearing seatbelts.
Investigators are yet to find what caused a horrific clang betwixt a Greyhound autobus and a car towing a caravan that near 3 women dormant and dozens much injured. Pictured is the caravan embedded into the beforehand of the bus
'The passengers are required to deterioration them. That volition beryllium 1 of the aspects we look astatine passim the investigation,' helium said.
He added the country of the clang was 'very confronting' for everyone involved.
'I besides privation to admit the relation that the members of the nationalist connected the country played successful assisting and treating immoderate of those injured people,' helium said.
'It was a precise important and precise confronting incident.
'With immoderate incidental similar this, the archetypal effect is precise chaotic and precise complex. Being successful a concern similar this is incredibly challenging.'
Shocking photos from the aftermath amusement the compartment of the caravan embedded into the beforehand of the bus, which had been pushed onto adjacent bid tracks.
It's understood 27 radical were treated for assorted injuries, portion the autobus operator managed to locomotion distant earnestly unharmed, sustaining conscionable insignificant caput injuries.
Other passengers were reportedly trapped successful the autobus wreckage.
Two men taken to hospital, aged 27 and 51, were listed unchangeable connected Sunday night.
The 3 women killed, and 27 passengers injured were each connected committee the bus, with those wrong the 4WD unharmed
Another man, 64, and 2 women, 23 and 63, were discharged from infirmary connected Sunday night.
A triage strategy was acceptable up astatine the country owed to the fig of victims, portion a Queensland Government Air rescue chopper and a RACQ Helicopter Rescue Service were besides deployed.
The autobus departed Brisbane astatine 12pm connected Saturday and was expected to get successful Townsville astatine 12.10pm connected Sunday.
The velocity bounds connected the Bruce Highway wherever the clang occurred was 100km/hour.
The road has since reopened.
The fearfulness clang caused large delays connected the Bruce Highway, which was closed successful some directions
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