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Pacific Highway carnage
The Pacific Highway in Northern NSW is the scene of many fatal accidents every year.
2/32Picture: Trevor Veale
3/32This is the scene of a Pacific Highway double fatality at Urunga. Picture: Frank Redward
4/32This is the scene of a Pacific Highway double fatality at Urunga. Picture: Frank Redward
5/32This is the scene of a Pacific Highway double fatality at Urunga. Picture: Frank Redward
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7/32Picture: Supplied/Samantha Elley
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9/32The scene of the tanker explosion. Picture: Jacklyn Wagner
10/32A truck burns after crashing into a guard rail on the Pacific Highway about 10km north of Ballina . Picture: Tony Gilding
11/32Accident on Pacific Highway near Urunga. Picture: Frank Redward
12/32The horror stretch of the Pacific Highway south of Urunga. Picture: Frank Redward
13/32This fatal accident on May 22 2009 was one of a series of incidents that prompted the call to lower the St Helena speed limit to 80km/h. The change is part of a Roads and Traffic Authority review on Pacific Highway speed zones to improve road safety.
14/32A truck which left the Pacific Highway near Chatsworth Island. Picture: Adam Hourigan
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16/32Three men were killed when their car collided with a truck on the Pacific Highway near Byron Bay. Picture: Lismore Northern Star
17/32A black history: A fatal truck accident on the Pacific Highway at Tabbimoble.
18/32Recent crashes on the Pacific Highway prompt the request for a crash unit relocation. Picture: TREVOR VEALE
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20/32The scene Ulmarra residents woke to after a truck rolled on a Pacific Highway bend at the southern end of the village. The scattered debris was the truck’s cargo of recycled plastic.
21/32CARNAGE: The pictured crashes – three of the eight fatalities on nearby stretches of the Pacific Highway in 2010 – tell a grim tale.
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23/32One of the eight fatalities on nearby stretches of the Pacific Highway in 2010.
24/32The driver of this truck was shaken but unharmed.
25/32Lucky escape: The driver and passenger of this ute were treated at hospital after running off the Pacific Highway at Moonee. Picture: Frank Redward
26/32The scene on the Pacific Highway near Bangalow after an accident that claimed the life of a Queensland woman.
27/32The SES had to cut a woman free after this two-car smash at the intersection of the Pacific Highway and Moonee Beach Road.
28/32Debris was strew across both lanes of the Pacific Highway after a car and truck collided, killing a 60 year old man. Picture: Westpac Rescue Lifesaver Helicopter Service
29/32The Pacific Highway was reduced to one lane between Bangalow and Newrybar after a B-double got unhitched. Picture: Jay Cronan
30/32Advocate reader David Bromley took this image of the accident at Hungry Head on the Pacific Highway.
31/32Picture: Crystal Spencer
32/32The crumbled remains of the car in which a Queensland husband and wife lost their lives after being hit head-on by a car driven by a 17-year-old P-plater south of Woodburn. . Picture: Doug Eaton
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