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not looking good.

My brother is on the search.

The car has turned up but the family is feared (close too) confirmed dead.

Be a miracle if anyoen survives that! :P

I hope everyone keeps safe and well!

there was also a landslide/rockfall at wondabyne...causing a minor derailment and train delays for hours.

I work in sydney and was stuck for 6 hours...everone took refuge at Hornsby RSL... not so bad..at least we are alive and well.. I just hope everyone else is safe and keeps out of harms way :mellow:

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not looking good.

My brother is on the search.

The car has turned up but the family is feared (close too) confirmed dead.

Be a miracle if anyoen survives that! :P

I hope everyone keeps safe and well!

there was also a landslide/rockfall at wondabyne...causing a minor derailment and train delays for hours.

I work in sydney and was stuck for 6 hours...everone took refuge at Hornsby RSL... not so bad..at least we are alive and well.. I just hope everyone else is safe and keeps out of harms way :laugh:

Oh man not good at all, my prayers go out to this family

And yes, everyone took refuge in the RSL and the Old Pub, we were so damn busy!!! Great business though.

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saw that on the news, what a huge hole. and very unlucky to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

was coming back from gosford today and got bored of the freeway, hopped on the old road at mt white and then thought "mmm maybe this isn't such a smart idea"... plenty of tree branches and stuff blown down on the road too.

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saw that on the news, what a huge hole. and very unlucky to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

was coming back from gosford today and got bored of the freeway, hopped on the old road at mt white and then thought "mmm maybe this isn't such a smart idea"... plenty of tree branches and stuff blown down on the road too.

i drove that road today... it's pretty clear actually.. all the trees have been cut away and are lying on the side of the road.... all the rock faces are constantly coated in a stream of water.... it looks amazing!

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  • 8 months later...
[A section of the Pacific Highway which collapsed, claiming the lives of five people, began corroding within a year of being built and was left to deteriorate for almost 25 years, an inquest has been told.

The RTA knew "long before" the F3 Somersby diversion was built in 1983 that a steel culvert without concrete lining had a propensity to "corrode and fail", counsel assisting the inquest Paul Menzies, QC, told Sydney's Central Local Court.

Similar culverts had collapsed on the NSW South Coast between 12 and 15 years after being built, with an RTA circular describing them as a "clamshell-like closure" of the steel under the weight of the road.

"Plainly the event that occurred [at Piles Creek] cannot be described as isolated," Mr Menzies said.

Concrete lining for the bottom of such pipes was made an Australian standard in 1977, but the use of concrete was left to the discretion of the engineer and not mandated.

Source: SMH

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yeah saw that on the news also. there was also footage from brisbane water hwy patrol and you can see the dip in the road and watch the car dip as it goes over it, that was filmed about a month before.

Also they were saying the driver was found to be under influence???

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