Kempsey bus crash

Kempsey bus crash
Details
Date22 December 1989
02:40
LocationPacific Highway, Clybucca Flat, Kempsey, New South Wales
CountryAustralia
OperatorMcCafferty's Coaches
Trans City Express
CauseBus driver fatigue on the McCafferty's Coach, narrow highway.
Statistics
Vehicles2
Deaths35
Injured41

The Kempsey bus crash killed 35 people and injured 41 on the Pacific Highway near Kempsey, New South Wales on 22 December 1989 when a McCafferty's Coaches coach operating an express service from Brisbane to Sydney collided head on with a Trans City Express coach operating an express service from Sydney to Brisbane. It remains the worst road crash in Australia.

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