TIMELINE OF THE NATION’S DEADLIEST BUS ACCIDENTS
* 1973: Eighteen dead, 21 injured after a tour bus carrying Adelaide pensioners plunged into the Tumut Ponds Dam in the Snowy Mountains
* 1979: Four dead, including two high school students, when a bus rolled off a cliff 60km south of Brisbane
* 1987: Eight students died when a bus returning from high school camp veered off a road near Gordonvale in Queensland
* 1989: Twenty killed in a collision between a coach and a semitrailer on the Pacific Highway near Grafton on the NSW north coast
* 1989: Two months later, thirty-five were dead and 39 injured at Clybucca, near Kempsey on the NSW mid-north coast after two coaches collided in Australia’s worst-ever road disaster
* 1990: Eleven dead, 47 injured when a bus crashed off a scenic mountain drive near Mount Tamborine in the Gold Coast hinterland
* 1990: Eight dead and four injured when a small bus and a road train collided near Katherine in the Northern Territory
* 1993: Ten killed and more than 30 injured when a bus and semi-trailer collided on the Hume Highway – Victoria’s worst road accident
* 1994: Twelve dead, 40 injured when a tour bus carrying mostly elderly passengers veered off the Gateway Arterial road Brisbane’s northern outskirts
* 2023: Ten killed and 25 injured after a charter bus carrying wedding guests crashed in the NSW Hunter Valley