https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-01/bruce-highway-long-wait-to-reopen-after-truck-explosion/104295292

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greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 1^st, 2024 at 10:48am:


Indeed.



Monty Python - Australian Bruces

But yes, it is sad that someone has died.

'Between 6 per cent and 8 per cent of 10,000 cane toads examined throughout the Gladstone region in the past three years had been found with abnormalities. Dr Wilson said the city's heavy industry was not necessarily to blame for malformations in the toads, but water quality and health of fish in Gladstone Harbour had been the focus of environmental concern'. Truck explosions can cause toad losses.

greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 1^st, 2024 at 10:48am:


Cooney?  How Australian is that?

greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 1^st, 2024 at 10:48am:



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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Highway

So you didn't do an Australian history or Geography at school?

Lived an insular life in your WA bubble?

freediver wrote on Sep 1^st, 2024 at 10:10am:


This accident has nothing to do with the state of the Bruce Highway.  That is deflection from the real issue. (maybe not from the RACQ, but others have said this)

The road surface was perfect at the scene and there was even solar powered street lighting. Fog was one factor, and driver error another. It could just as easily have happened driving through Brisbane motorways. However there is still the elephant in the room:

I want to know who on earth made the decision to transport Ammonium Nitrate Emulsion on a major road from Central Queensland to a mine in NSW.  It's not just ammonium nitrate or fertiliser.  All you have to do is add a cocktail of impurities (soil and heat works quite well too) and it can be detonated. It already contains the oil. It is much much more likely to explode than Ammonium nitrate prill.

The only person brave (or naïve) enough to say that it was AN emulsion was the QFRS Incident Commander. None of the media reports include this information.

The decision was made many years ago to classify it as an oxidiser, as opposed to an explosive. After all, it was only going to be transported a short distance to the minesites.

It was a loud shudder. I thought an aircraft had crashed nearby, it was so loud.

Whatever method they used to store it, I think they did a reasonable job. It did not explode until several hours after the crash, and no-one was killed by the explosion. If you propose that this stuff be mixed onsite, you would have to demonstrate that this would be safer overall, not just safer on the road. Would people be more likely do die on the minesite by trying to mix it there?

Probably less likely to happen in a 'downtown' area as the vehicles would not have been travelling as fast, so less damage.

Someone has now died after being struck by a vehicle on the detour route. So you could possibly attribute that to the explosion.

Daves2017 wrote on Sep 1^st, 2024 at 6:01pm:



I'd say he was killed due to his own stupidity.

Walking along the Burnett Highway at 12.30am - just after midnight in the middle of know where
in an area known as Malmoe -NW of Mundubbera.
And he was from Hervey Bay.

https://mypolice.qld.gov.au/news/2024/09/01/fatal-traffic-incident-malmoe/#:~:te...