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Subscriber only The final moments before a car ploughed head-on into a school bus full of children on a southern Queensland highway have been revealed. Yuleba mother Fallon Sladden s two sons Liam, 13, and Brae, 12, were aboard the bus when a car slammed head-on about 3.20pm on Friday, May 14. Liam was sitting in one of the front seats when the crash happened and witnessed the oncoming car. He (Liam) said Col kept flashing his lights and slowed the bus down to about 15km/hr, she said. When the car collided with the school bus, the sheer force smashed in the front of the vehicle, with Liam suffering broken tibia and fibula bones in his leg and a broken thumb.
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