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Shortly after the Adelaide–Crafers section opened, several incidents involving semi-trailers drew media attention to the road. While the previous Mount Barker Road was a notorious stretch, its dangers were well known; the new freeway presented the new challenge of a sustained continuous gradient with traffic lights at the bottom.
Bus incidents in Australia (3 P) D. Road incident deaths in Australia (8 C, 12 P) L. Level crossing incidents in Australia (4 P) Pages in category "Road incidents in ...
The Britannia Roundabout is a roundabout intersection on the eastern side of the City Ring Route near the city centre of Adelaide, and is named for the Britannia Hotel, adjacent. Before it was upgraded in 2014 it was regarded as a traffic black spot, many minor collisions having occurred there. [1]
The Port River Expressway was built in three stages: Stage 1 – Was opened for traffic in July 2005. It consists of a 5.5-kilometre (3.4 mi) four-lane expressway link between Francis Street and the then South Road, Adelaide, now the North-South Motorway; with an overpass at each of the junctions of the North-South Motorway, Hanson Road and Eastern Parade.
Low-income countries now have the highest annual road traffic fatality rates, at 24.1 per 100,000, while the rate in high-income countries is lowest, at 9.2 per 100,000. [3] Seventy-four percent of road traffic deaths occur in middle-income countries, which account for only 53 percent of the world's registered vehicles.
A collision on I-5 northbound near the Old Fairhaven Parkway has blocked traffic in the right lane northbound. It was announced at 4:28 p.m. WSDOT north posted on social media that people should ...
The Murray Valley Highway crosses the Piangil railway line about 6 km (3.7 mi) north-west of the town of Kerang. The level crossing at this location, numbered Y2943, was protected prior to the accident by warning signs, road markings, flashing lights and warning bells, all of which were later found to be operational at the time of the crash.
Ashton said, "The truck itself appears to have moved from one of the traffic lanes in the freeway into the emergency lane and has travelled a short distance in the emergency lane at around about 100km/h and slammed into the rear of the highway patrol vehicle." Constable Lynette Taylor, 60, senior constable Kevin King, 50, and constables Glen ...