Awhe Pikari was with her two brothers on a school bus when it was hit by a truck, sending the coach flying off the road onto its side with 46 children inside on May 16.
The horrific crash between a truck and a school bus in Victoria this week urgently reminds us just how dangerous it is to have heavy vehicles on the same roads everybody else uses. But what’s the solution? Purpose-built roads for trucks? Mandatory high-tech safety equipment for heavy vehicles? Or just ban trucks from the roads altogether?
The father of a truck driver charged after a horror crash injured dozens of schoolchildren northwest of Melbourne says his son is shattered by the incident.