I normally never travel this road but went to visit relatives in Maryborough on Tuesday and returned Wednesday. I have two comments regarding this tragedy:

1. Whilst not wishing to tarnish all drivers with the same brush, on a number of occasions the truck drivers were travelling like maniacs on speed. Driving within feet behind a car or caravan, speeding...unjustifiable.
2. The Bruce Highway is littered with potholes and in some stretches is more like a country road than a major thoroughfare for our State. One wonders what our high registrations are being used for.

However, that is not to say that this incident was sparked by truck drivers or the road. Slow down people and concentrate on your driving. It can happen in milliseconds.

Makes you feel sick to the stomach when you see a truck that you no involved in an accident like that when come across a photo like that.

Thoughts and prayers go out to the families involved in the accident.

It's not the road - its the drivers!
Those heading north seem to get lulled into some kind of daze while they're travelling on the 110 kph zone, and the brain doesnt seem to comprehend the lower speed limits.

this very morning I was travelling through to Gympie and as so often happens I encountered a b double travelling at well in excess of the speed -- even at 4 am accidents do happen! I called into matilda as I often do, and a b double roared passed as I continued my journe - lights flashing, warning "dont you dare come out in front of me" . I moved onto the road after he'd passed - and even when I'd managed to get up to the allowable speed, he had disappeared -- there is little doubt in my mind he was travelling at 130 kph.

Ofcourse its not all truckdrivers == there a rednecks in clapped out monaros with tranfers of steers heads on the back window .. and silly little 20 somethings oblivious to anyone else on the road, checking their makeup ( yes it does happen often) as they travelled at well beyond the speed thieir baby buckets were designed for ( you konw the type, they grow frangipannies on their back windows)

Sure the road, like all roads can do with some maintenance .. but there are worse roads, and as busy elsewhere in Australia that require the same kind of maintenance ..

Its a matter - as always - of driving "to the conditions" that prevail ... and the conditions prvailing at the time were certainly not conducive to high speed.

Minister of roads what has to be done. More loved ones lost because of poor roads get on and view our website www.gopetition.com/petitions/noosa-cooro... do something with these roads

we need double or 4 lanes each side all the way through to cairns... Qld have the worst roads in Australia and pay the highest road taxes

The Cooroy-Curra Bypass is a long way off until we're driving on it...even then, it's not going to stop fatalities. Especially, at fault fatalities. Stupid driving, etc.
I live in Gympie and regularly travel to Sunshine Coast.

I was a passenger in an accident when I was 15 (almost 15years ago now) near Kybong Hall. A freak accident where a semi trailer fullen laden with logs came over the rise in the road. We were the 2nd car behind a registered tractor on the highway! (travelling at snails pace). The semi hit us and pushed us several times into oncoming traffic (which we steered back into our lane to narrowly miss!). The tractor never stopped. Nobody was hurt. But I get shivers every time we pass the Kybong Hall and go up that rise on our way to the Sunshine Coast from Gympie.

Just travelled again last weekend and my husband commented that our almost brand new cars speedo must be stuffed, coz we were travelling at the speed limit and being passed by many cars doing no less than 130.
Slow down! Be safe! Watch those trucks!
There's lives, families, precious cargo on the roads.