On 2 October 1989, two buses collided on the Adelaide O-Bahn (high speed busway). There were 78 people injured in the collision. The accident occurred five kilometres north-east of the city, when a bus moving off the track onto the interchange was hit from behind by a second bus.
Bus collision, Adelaide, 1989
Quick Statistics
78
Injured
Sources
Sydney Morning Herald 1990, ‘ A log of Crashes, and what politicians promised at the time’, 23 December 1990, website viewed 1 March 2012.
Sydney Morning Herald 1990, ‘Sad history of coach injuries’, 28 May 1990, website viewed 1 March 2012
Sydney Morning Herald 1989, ‘78 hurt in crash on high-speed bus track’, 2 October 1989, website viewed 1 March 2012.