Wirreanda Secondary School bus crushed by massive tree branch
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A school bus has been damaged by a freak tree fall in Adelaide’s southern suburbs.
The huge limb fell on to the bus parked at Wirreanda Secondary School in Morphett Vale overnight on Monday.
No one was on board when the tree branch snapped and there had been no reports of injuries.
An Onkaparinga Council spokesman told The Advertiser the tree was on school grounds.
“Our team only maintains trees on council land,” he said.
He said the council routinely monitored trees to assess changes in health and condition and would take “appropriate maintenance actions to mitigate risk”.
“We follow a risk management approach to managing our trees with a focus on high occupancy/activity areas such as schools and playgrounds.”
An education department spokesperson said “a previous arborist inspection found the tree was not high risk but it will be removed following this incident.”
The bus was used for occasional excursions, they said, and school “operations” would not be affected.
They clarified no one had been injured.
“Students are not allowed in the bus car park.”
In June, a 70-year-old Adelaide Hills man was rushed to hospital after a tree branch fell on his parked car while he was cleaning it on his Retreat Valley Rd, Gumeracha property.
It comes after Alifia Soeryo, 22, was killed by a falling tree at the University of Adelaide soccer ground on War Memorial Drive on February 7.
The woman’s death came just weeks after a young mum and her daughter were struck by a falling tree branch at a Mount Barker playground and was the fourth major incident in the past four years.
At the end of 2020, beloved Seymour College teacher Judy Ditter and Surrey Downs man Wayne Couch were both killed in the space of weeks by branches.
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