Experienced Queensland truck driver Kevin Pearson, 75, was charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving after the crash. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the report, the investigatory body said the truck was travelling at about 90km\/h when it entered the Barrier Hwy crossing near Cutana at 10:15am on December 31. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The crossing did not have boom gates, but had active warning systems including lights and bells which had activated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The train, which was driven by Mr Baker and Mr Warren, was travelling at about 84km\/h when it collided with the truck\u2019s trailers and the two locomotives and six multi-platform freight wagons derailed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 75-year-old truck driver was taken to Broken Hill Hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ATSB said a large amount of the rail and level crossing infrastructure was destroyed or substantially damaged in the crash. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The aftermath of the horror truck collision on Barrier Highway. Picture: 7NEWS<\/p>\n\n\n\n While the crash occurred at 10.15am, the rail network\u2019s control officer was not aware of the accident until emergency services called at about 10.30am, the ATSB said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A number of attempts were then made to contact the crew via the train radio, before contacting Pacific National, which then tried to contact them via their personal mobile phones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But it wasn\u2019t until 11.24, more than an hour after the crash, that one of the driver\u2019s phones was answered by a member of the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adelaide Advertiser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two beloved Port Augusta fathers suffered fatal injuries in a horror New Year\u2019s Eve smash \u2013 but it took an hour before their bosses found out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":65271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,173,163],"tags":[10407,7527],"class_list":["post-65270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-level-crossing-safety","category-pacific-national","category-rail-industry-news-australia-new-zealand","tag-port-augusta","tag-south-australia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65272,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65270\/revisions\/65272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-105-1024x576.jpeg\")
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