REMEMBER WHEN

GOLD COAST BULLETIN Thursday, August 16, 2007

A MAN was killed when his outof-control car hit a busload of school students on Ferry Road in Southport.

The senior students from The Southport School were returning from a dance class at St Hilda’s when the accident occurred in wet conditions about 9.30pm.

Most of the students were traumatised but had not sustained serious injury.

The man, who was travelling north on Ferry Road, lost control and careered over the median strip into the path of the bus which was travelling south, smashing into the front of it.

There was little emergency crews could do to save the trapped man, who died at the scene.

“The car is firmly wedged under the front of the bus,” said Queensland Fire and Rescue acting senior operations co-ordinator Mark Gribble at the scene.

“We have one confirmed fatality but we will need to separate the vehicles before we can establish if there were passengers in the car.”

Students who saw the ordeal unfold in front of them said the whole thing was `frightening’.

“I saw the car coming from a while back and it looked like it had lost control,” said a student who was not able to be named.

“It has come down the road and hit the median strip before it spun out in front of the bus. There was this huge bang and a jolt, and this horrible screeching sound. You could hear all the glass smashing.”

Students were marshalled together nearby and consoled by classmates and teachers.