The Pacific Highway is the major 905 km highway linking Sydney to Brisbane. It’s a beautiful highway used by millions every year. The highway is now a dual carriageway for almost its entire length...but it wasn't always this way. In 1989, twin tragedies struck only months apart that changed the highway forever. Two separate bus accidents tragically killed a total of 56 people, making it clearer than ever before how unsafe the Pacific Highway was. Over thirty years later and the drive is substantially safer. Follow me as we explore the coloured, tragic and transformative history of the Pacific Highway.

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Thank you again to Sam from Ozroads for letting me use his Pacific Highway photos. Thank you as well to Daniel Thomas who was a big help with research for this video. Finally thank you to Alex Spurway for allowing me to use his footage of the bypassed sections of the Pacific Highway.

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Links:
The Ozroads page on the Pacific Highway: https://www.ozroads.com.au/NSW/RouteN...
The official Pacific Highway Upgrade website: https://www.pacifichighway.nsw.gov.au
News footage of the Grafton Bus Accident:    • 20 years since 1989 Grafton bus disas...  
News footage of the Kempsey Bus Accident:    • Kempsey bus crash (1989) ****Rare vid...  
Upgrading the Pacific Highway 1999 Documentary:    • Building a Safer Highway - 1999 Austr...