Meanwhile, a highway tragedy on the road to the snow field created chaos. A collision between a truck and a sedan on the Monaro Highway yesterday afternoon left one young man dead and stranded thousands of motorists headed for the ski fields. NSW police closed both lanes of the highway at the height of the school holiday snow season backing up traffic for about 4km in both directions.
EMERGENCY: Ambulance and police crews attend the
Monaro Highway crash scene yesterday as cars headed
for the Snowy Mountains bank up
GRIDLOCK: School holiday motorists
were resigned to a long wait near Bredbo.
Photos: KARLEEN MINNEY
Photographs and reports courtesy of The Canberra Times Link = Not a snowflakes chance of keeping warm
7 comments:
Bleep! That's a lot of snow!
Wow. I feel for the motorists and the family.
Did you have an ice storm? Looks like icy snow.
And here in Nebraska, we are sweltering in the heat. Isn't this just an interesting world?
We've had alpine blizzards and severe weather events for the past week. Yesterday was freezing and bitterly cold. The dead driver was a youth, a "P" plate driver, alone, who drifted across the road into and oncoming semi-trailer. Police believe he may have fell asleep at the wheel and the accident occurred despite the truck driver taking evasive action.
I feel for the truck driver, too. Not a good day for anyone.
Crazy weather.
Have you been able to get out, other than your volunteer driving? (At least that got you out for a bit. :)
Not much - hope to get to the Garden centre today and lay in a few supplies -we are going up to 'The Camp' and staying overnight for two nights at the end of this week. Must walk Denny down to the river pond today and feed the ducks some stale bread!
That sounds like a great time, feeding ducks. :)
Hope you have a wonderful Sunday! :)
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