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From her kitchen window, Pippa Colman can look right across Bowness Bay to the big steamer pier where holidaymakers catch the old boats across Windermere. It is the kind of view that brings visitors flocking to the Lake District each year, yet for Pippa it is part of her family history. Her home, Old Fallbarrow, is one of the oldest houses on the lake.
It still has stone-flagged floors, open fires and a garden that runs down to Windermere with its own jetty. This is probably the last house in such a position that hasn't been turned into holiday flats. "The view is wonderful at night when it is all lit up," Pippa says. She can't remember when she hasn't been able to tell the strength and direction of the wind from the flags on the water.
"This is my childhood home. I had a wonderful time, swimming, canoeing and sailing. And I have watched my own children grow up enjoying the lake, too. They are fantastic swimmers, water skiers and footballers," she says.
This is, after all, Swallows and Amazons country, where John, Susan, Titty and Roger had their adventures on Wild Cat Island, eating pemmican (canned meat) and drinking grog (ginger beer). The Colman children – Rudi, 17, Ollie, 16 (who is already playing with Bolton Wanderers), and Barnaby, 10, have had it for real. "They have grown up making rafts, being picked up by friends in their boats," Pippa says.
Pippa's mother Jane Rothwell, 83, still lives with Pippa and her husband Russell at Old Fallbarrow, and her brother runs a boatyard along the lake. "A lot of the big houses have been turned into apartments, hotels or split into holiday lets," she says.
While the area that inspired writers and artists like William Wordsworth, John Ruskin, Beatrix Potter and Arthur Ransome has become a tourist honeypot, this house has remained unspoilt. "When you are here you don't need to go anywhere else. People come for a coffee and stay for the whole afternoon," Pippa says.
She is a familiar figure on the lake, which is known for its magical islands and as the setting for water speed records. She stores small boats, which people use to ferry themselves to and from bigger vessels on the lake. "On summer evenings they tie up on our jetty, and go into Bowness to shop or eat in the restaurants. We have 56 tenders and we berth 40 small sailing dinghies."
At five in the morning, local fishermen arrive to take their boats out to catch char. "Either side of the jetty are two stone beaches, where we have 10 old-fashioned clinker-built fishing boats," she says.
Beside the house is a four-bedroom cottage, which they have used as a holiday let, where Russell runs a photographic studio, producing family portraits, weddings, school plays and sports days. His signature photographs capture people in unguarded moments – as the wind catches a bride's dress or a child's face lights up.
Next door to Old Fallbarrow is the Royal Windermere Yacht Club, where people gather in summer to watch the regattas and drink gin and tonics on the wide veranda. Pippa now races dinghies and knows the lake as well as anybody – the flukey winds that blow down the valleys and the sudden changes that can flip calm conditions into a raging storm.
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So my idea was to make him a huge bacon sandwich(since he's a bigger built guy) then make a poster and show up at his house.
The one thing that I'm having trouble with is deciding what the poster should say that ties the bacon sandwich in.
i was thinking something like " I've been "bacon" to ask you something... will you go to winter formal with me?"
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There are approximately 1.2 billion animal species and 300,000 plant species hitherto known. Going by the U.S. Geological Survey 1997 on the age of the earth (estimated to be 4.54 billion years), what should be the average rate of speciation?
How many mutations, on average, are required per speciation?
What is the average, observed mutation rate?
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At 5/3/2016 8:19:58 AM, someloser wrote:About 1 new species every 4 years. If you take into account that the first life start 3.8 billion years ago that changes to about 1 new species every 3 years.
That tends to vary between different species so a single number is extremely difficult to calculate.
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Well estimates vary as to how many species there actually are. Also most species have gone extinct. Scientists extimate that there are 9 million species today. If 99.9$ of species have gone extinct then we are talking about 9 billion species that have ever existed. Life has existed for about 3 billion years on earth. So speciation should happen 3 times a year. Since these are only estimates it could be higher like 100 speciation events per year or lower at 1 speciation event every 10 years. There is a very large margin or error because each of the numbers used for this calculation are just estimates. Plus evolution does not happen at a constant pace and humans have been wiping out a lot of species lately. Also what a species is, is up for debate.
Depending on how you define a mutation the number of mutations to make a species can widely vary and can be as low as 1.
There are about 100 mutations per individual.
Most of the species on the planet are tiny organisms and there is no way we are going to even know when a speciation event happens because we are not carefully observing all 9 million species. Plus if a new species arises, if we are not careful it might be classified as a previously undiscovered species similar to an existing species.
Even with all this we have seen plenty of speciation. For example, we have speciation in the lab, Darwin's finches, and many ring species.
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At 5/3/2016 1:00:08 PM, distraff wrote:At 5/3/2016 8:19:58 AM, someloser wrote:
ME: http://evolutiondismantled.com...
There is always an argument against as there are arguments for a particular theory.
I still can't understand the use of family, and species n by evolutionists. I have never denied t hat the can and is change in species, it is so obvious that the dog breeders of the world would faint if that was proved wrong.
However, no dog breeder has gone to the little of puppies and found a cat, a pig, a budgerigar or any other baby of another Family (kind) in the litter
Please, Could some one just put it is simple words the difference between family and species.
The above site is well set out and is not from a creationist, but a disagreeing scientific group.
What is science? Newton was called a scientist because he was hit on the head by an apple. Yes a bit of an exaggeration I know, but it is almost like that.
Pleases, I don't want a discussion of Newton, it is just an example of what it means to be a scientist...He was not a biologist, so we see nothing of his thoughts on evolution....maybe that theory was not well received in Newton's day.
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In empirical science, there's really no relationship between mutations and specialization. Observed specialization, as defined by reproductive isolation, isn't caused by an accumulation of mutations. I.e. Specification is not relevant to Evolution. Evolution is about change in typology, not reproductive isolation.
A single mutation can split a population. A polyploidal mutation can divide a population, technically creating a new species. But, both species are physiologically indistinguishable from each other.
Populations isolated by geography can undergo adaptive divergence, and speciate without a single mutation occurring.
No specification is a result of simple accumulation of mutations. No new species appear by Evolution.
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At 5/6/2016 2:42:41 AM, Rukado wrote:At 5/3/2016 8:19:58 AM, someloser wrote:
"I read a little bit about evolution. Now I can make meaningless sentences that sound technical by throwing in some scientific jargon."
LOL. Still no evidence for your god fairy creator?
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Becker announced at his Tuesday State of the City address deals have been reached with major airlines to fund the $1.8 billion rebuilding. Design work is expected to start over the summer, and construction would happen in phases over at least eight years.
Seismic upgrades are a major motivation for the overhaul, but officials say they also want to make the airport efficient for the more than 21 million passengers who use it every year.
Airport spokeswoman Barbara Gann says the project wouldn't require taxpayer dollars and would be funded through passenger charges, rental car fees and contributions from airline companies.


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Given the rapid adoption of wireless as an automation network tool–its use has grown much faster than did Ethernet initially–I spoke recently with Bill Conley, lead wireless design engineer at B&B Electronics. Bill is a great person to speak with about wireless, considering he has been involved with wireless since its early days, winning a Best of Sensors Expo 2002 award for his wireless sensor transceiver technology. Bill was also among the first third party certified design engineers to work with Aerocomm's and MaxStream's 900 MHz wireless products.
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DG: When did the wireless trend first begin to really take off from a systems design point of view?
BC: Wireless has been building since about 1994. B&B recognized the trend early on, and acquired Advanced Embedded Systems in 2006 to accelerate its foothold in the industrial data acquisitions market. (Note: Advanced Embedded Systems was a wireless communication products supplier to the sensor, controller, and embedded markets).
DG: Have any particular industries been the leader in deployment of wireless technologies as part of an automation network?
BC: Adoption has been fairly broad. But the oil and gas and wastewater treatment industries have been the clear leaders in terms of monitoring and control. Other markets include tank farm monitoring and inventory control. B&B sees growing interest in wireless from a systems design perspective as more products offer higher resolution at lower cost, lower profile, etc. For system designers, wireless eliminates running a lot of wires back to a PLC. Much of what we've done with systems designers has been in industrial wire replacement applications, where it's essential to support many industry protocols such as Modbus RTU, Modbus TCP/IP and Rockwell's Ethernet/IP.
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The explosive risk of fuel tankers
Fuel tankers are among the most dangerous vehicles on the road, carrying loads that make them vulnerable to rollover and explosions. Two recent, fatal accidents involved tanker rollovers, but recommended safety measures specifically designed to reduce rollovers haven't been followed through. Ann Arnold investigates.
Tankers carting dangerous goods in NSW must now be fitted with anti-roll technology (video) by David Spicer, ABC1 News 12.3.2014
Fuel tankers ordered to be retrofitted with auto brakes by 2019 by Jacob Saulwick, Fairfax Media 12.3.2014
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It's a typically Australian scenario—every summer families hit the road after Christmas.
On December 28, 2009, sisters Debbie Bridge and Sheree Montgomery set off with their husbands and children in two cars from their parents' farm near Wangaratta, Victoria, to drive back to their homes at Ulladulla on the NSW south coast.
The sisters were close, and the Bridge family had moved to Ulladulla from QLD a couple of years earlier to be with their cousins.
On the Princes Highway, with only a bit further to go in their seven hour drive, tragedy struck, in the form of an out of control fuel tanker. The tanker, owned by Cootes Transport, had taken a bend too fast and was swivelling and swaying towards them at an estimated 80-90 kph.
After striking two other cars and injuring their occupants, the tanker rolled into the Bridge family's car, which exploded, killing 13-year-old Jordan and 11-year-old Makeely Bridge, in the back seat. Sheree and Frank Montgomery and their two children had been travelling behind them. With other people helping, they were able to drag Debbie and David Bridge out of their car.
Both suffered burns to 80 per cent of their bodies. David died five days later, Debbie two years later.
The tanker driver, 34-year-old David Carolan, died at the scene.
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This map has been generated from a selection of news reports on fuel tanker crashes and rollovers reported since 2009. The list is not exhaustive but indicative. There is no national data on fuel tanker accidents.
Fuel tankers, with their flammable, moveable loads, are especially susceptible to rollovers—with disastrous consequences.
After a coronial inquiry into the four deaths, Deputy State Coroner Carmel Forbes made a clear recommendation: that electronic stability control (ESC), a high-tech braking system, be fitted to all heavy vehicles carrying dangerous goods.
ESC anticipates rollovers and loss of directional control.
'It's an intelligent controller,' says Peter Hart, a heavy vehicle braking specialist, 'a box of electronics that is able to put on particular brakes on the vehicle in a way that will improve its control.'
'So, for example, if the system perceives that a truck is likely to roll over, it's going too fast into a corner, ESC can intervene to brake the truck and slow it down.'
Two years since the coroner made that recommendation, it has not been implemented. No law requires older trailers to be retrofitted, and only one state has moved to legislate for new tankers.
That frustrates Jack Murray, Debbie Bridge and Sheree Montgomery's father.
'I just believe that if you've got the technology to be able to do it, why shouldn't it be done?' he says.
'And why waste the money on having a coroner's inquest if nobody's going to do anything about it? Why waste your time?'
Jack and Jenny Murray have decided to speak publicly for the first time, in the hope of drawing attention to the coroner's recommendations. They told Background Briefing that when a fuel tanker—another Cootes tanker—crashed and exploded in Sydney's Mona Vale in September last year, killing two people, it caused a whole new wave of distress.
'Our heart went out to those people because we'd been through it,' Jenny Murray says through tears. 'You know, when you go through something like that, just... Those poor people. The families and everything. It's... it's just so wrong.'
A police investigation into the Mona Vale accident is underway, and an inquest will be held this year. It's not clear whether electronic stability control would have made any difference in that particular case.
However, Peter Hart says that in terms of a general safety measure likely to prevent tankers from rolling over and/or running off the side of the road, it's a proven technology, and Australia is lagging behind Western world standards in not making it mandatory.
This article represents part of a larger Background Briefing investigation. Listen to Ann Arnold's full report on Sunday at 8.05 am or use the podcast links above after broadcast.
Seven years ago Hart was lead consultant on a National Heavy Vehicle Braking Strategy which recommended then that the government make it compulsory for all new Australian heavy vehicles be fitted with electronic stability control.
Over the past 12 months, he has been writing to state and territory transport ministers, urging them to expedite the process.
But the process is a slow and convoluted one. The national system of Australian Design Rules sets technological benchmarks for new heavy vehicles before they are registered. A meeting of transport ministers late last year signed off on mandating ABS—anti-locking braking system—in the design rules by mid-2014, but not electronic stability control.
Peter Hart says both are needed. Many in the trucking industry agree, and are also pushing for mandatory ESC, including the National Bulk Tanker Association and the Australian Trucking Association (ATA).
David Simon, the ATA's chairman, runs a large, family-owned trucking and logistics business, Simon National Carriers, based in Queensland.
'I've been purchasing electronic stability on all the trailers we've bought for the last seven or eight years, really, since it's become reliable and robust in Australian conditions,' he says.
'If in the life of a trailer, which is typically up to 30 years, we save one rollover and potentially one life it's a very small investment to be fitting that electronic stability equipment.'
But without legal compulsion, will companies retrofit their old tanker trailers? David Simon thinks probably not.
'It's certainly significantly higher cost to retrofit an older vehicle with ABS systems, and in reality I don't think that will happen very often. It may happen if it's mandated for tankers, but for the majority of the fleet it would simply not be cost effective. It involves changing axles and braking systems as well as actuator valves and things, and the electronic system.'
Not surprisingly, Jack Murray can't see how cost should be a factor when it comes to fuel tankers. 'Retrofit the old vehicles or don't go on the road,' he says. 'They're booking them for minor details and that sort of thing, why worry about minor details with trucks not filling in their log book and such like if you don't turn around and get to the crux of the matter.'
The transportation of dangerous goods is regulated by each state or territory. The various state dangerous goods regulators come together on the national Competent Authorities Panel.
Following the coroner's recommendations after the Batemans Bay inquest, NSW pushed on that national panel to have electronic stability control mandated for dangerous goods trucks. National consensus is needed because tankers travel interstate.
It was raised at no less than six meetings, according to Craig Lamberton, the director of hazardous incidents and environmental health at the NSW Environment Protection Authority. There was, he says, indifference from some states.
'The eastern seaboard has a lot of people, a lot of vehicle movements. If there is an incident, and, as we've seen, these two tragedies, you know, we're [NSW] quite motivated, we can see the issues.'
'If you're in a state that's less populous with large areas of state with very little population, it may not be a priority.'
At a seventh meeting, late last year, after the Mona Vale accident, the panel finally agreed to make it an in-principle requirement for new dangerous goods vehicles only. NSW legislation for that comes into effect on 1 July. The panel has not agreed to retrofitting older tanker trailers.
Cootes Transport, now owned by McAleese, has committed to retrofitting all theirs by mid-this year and a company spokeswoman said its new tankers are bought with ESC.
Other coroner recommendations covered driver education, especially about speed—just a few kilometres per hour can make the difference, especially with a moveable load, the inquest heard.
Debbie Bridge, who'd lost her husband and two daughters and was so badly burnt, chose to address the court at that Batemans Bay inquest, and had a big impact. A Cootes representative was there, and she arranged with him to visit their base in Melbourne, which she did a month later. Her father Jack Murray was there.
'There was about 50 or 60 drivers gathered in the afternoon tea room. And she spoke to them and tried to instil into them to be careful and to make sure that you always drove within your means and not put the trucks through too much stress, I suppose you'd say.'
'I should've had a tape recorder there, but I hadn't, and she did a very good speech I thought, and the drivers were very impressed with her. Different ones came up to her after the talk and congratulated her on her talk and said how sorry they felt for her and the family after.'
Debbie Bridge was back living with her parents in Victoria by that stage, so they could care for her. It was a daily struggle for Debbie, her parents say, 'always thinking about Dave and the girls', and dealing with her injuries.
She died early the next year. 'She just couldn't handle it anymore,' her grieving mother said.
(Editor's note: The article originally said the truck in the Princes Highway accident was a B-Double. That was incorrect, it was a tanker with a single trailer)
Ann Arnold: Every day, hundreds of fuel tankers pull out of depots around the country to supply the daily needs of the nation. Because of their load, fuel tankers are potentially the most dangerous vehicles on our roads. There have been several recent accidents involving tankers, including a horror crash on the New South Wales south coast four years ago.
Newsreader: Shortly before 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon a fuel tanker collided head-on with three cars on the Princes Highway at Termeil. Two children in one of the cars as well as the truck driver died. Two other people were pulled from the wreckage with burns to 80% of their bodies. Rebecca Bruce, ABC News Wollongong.
David Ford: So as the tanker came down that stretch of road, heading south, the trailer, which was attached to the tanker, the wheels rose up off the ground and it slowly but surely flipped over on its side. The weight of that then pulled over the entire tanker, which was attached to the prime mover, and then the prime mover ultimately then came on its side.
Ann Arnold: Solicitor David Ford was involved in the coronial inquest into the Princes Highway accident.
David Ford: The entire fuel tanker is travelling at about 80, 90 kilometres per hour, begins to then fall on its side, slide down the roadway. It actually ran over the car in which the Bridge family was in, rolled over it. It struck I think two other vehicles and forced them to the side of the road. But then an explosion took place, where the fuel erupted in a major fireball explosion and then spread to the vehicles, but specifically the Bridge vehicle, which was completely doused in fuel and petrol and kerosene because the tanker had rolled over it. And then when the explosion occurred of course there was only seconds left.
Ann Arnold: Sisters Jordan Bridge, aged 13, and Makeely Bridge, 11, died in their car. Their father, David Bridge, died from severe burns some days after the accident. The tanker driver, 36-year-old David Carolan, died at the scene. Debbie Bridge, the girls' mother, suffered 80% burns, and would live for another two years.
Debbie's father, Jack Murray, is only now prepared to talk publicly about the tragedy.
Jack Murray: We just want to make sure that it doesn't happen to anybody else or any other families. Trucks are running all the time, every day, backwards and forwards, interstate, and I just don't want to see it happen again, that's all.
Ann Arnold: As well as devastating the family and friends of the victims, the crash had a wider effect, on their local communities and on all those who witnessed the accident.
Bev Fricke was in the first car hit by the tanker.
Bev Fricke: I often have nightmares about the accident. I'm constantly reminded of the accident when I'm driving. I pay constant attention to fuel tankers coming towards us. If I'm driving myself I have a very great fear, and if there's one on my side of the road, I accelerate to get past it as quickly as possible, to get it out of my sight. And there was one occasion when I saw five fuel tankers one after the other, with two passenger vehicles in between, and all I could think of was what if one of those had an accident and exploded and the rest followed into it. And it tends to bring on an anxiety attack and it's very difficult to cope with.
Ann Arnold: In late 2011, two years after the Princes Highway accident, the Deputy State Coroner made a number of recommendations about the safety and stability of fuel tankers, which are particularly vulnerable to rollover. Key recommendations had not been implemented when late last year there was another fatal crash involving a fuel tanker rollover, at Mona Vale in northern Sydney.
Newsreader: Witnesses have described their horror at seeing a fuel tanker burst into flames and hit several cars in Sydney's north this afternoon. Jean Kennedy reports two people are dead and five others injured.
Reporter: Up to five cars ran into the truck and also caught fire. Tommy Raymond saw one car drive straight into the flames.
Witness: Like, it was that hot and I knew there was another car in there and you could hear people screaming further down saying, 'Get out.'
Reporter: Another driver was in front of the truck before…
Ann Arnold: The cause of the Mona Vale accident is yet to be determined. There is a police investigation and an inquest will be held this year. But there are some eerie similarities with the earlier crash on the New South Wales south coast.
The tankers in both accidents belonged to the same transport company, Cootes Transport, which in just the past week has had its New South Wales fleet of petrol tankers ordered off the road for further inspections, after major defects were found.
Both fatal accidents involved tankers rolling over, which led to fuel explosions and people being incinerated. The Mona Vale crash was shattering to all those who'd been affected by the south coast accident.
Solicitor David Ford:
David Ford: I really felt when I left that coronial inquiry, I really felt that enough had been recorded and enough information had been uncovered and reduced to a judgement or decision where hopefully this type of accident just wouldn't happen again. Because we must obviously have access to petrol, we need to have petrol tankers delivering fuel, it's a necessary part of our civilisation, to go to your service station and fill up your car. And as we get more cars on the road, we have to realise that if you have an accident involving a petrol tanker, you are immediately looking at possibly people losing their lives. And what I hoped, and in a sense what I prayed for after that coronial hearing was that we just may be able to make sure that sort of accident doesn't ever happen again. And unfortunately, it has.
Ann Arnold: So why has a technology which has been shown to significantly reduce the risk of rollover not been made compulsory for tanker fleets whose loads are so dangerous?
Hello, I'm Ann Arnold, and this is Background Briefing.
Speed and fatigue are well-known contributors to heavy vehicle accidents, and the Transport Workers Union has announced an industrial dispute with the gas and fuel industry, citing undue pressures on drivers, and on maintenance.
But there is a high-tech braking system that can help with driver error and truck stability. This technology was identified by the south coast inquest as essential for fuel tankers in particular, because of their volatility.
Peter Hart: It's an intelligent controller, that is a box of electronics, that is able to put on particular brakes on the vehicle in a way that will improve its control. So, for example, if the system perceives that a truck is likely to roll over, it's going too fast into a corner, ESC, that is Electronic Stability Control, can intervene to brake the truck and slow it down.
Ann Arnold: Vehicle engineer Peter Hart. ESC is fast becoming standard technology in heavy vehicles around the world, but Australia is yet to make it mandatory. And that frustrates Jack Murray, who lost three family members in the Princes Highway accident.
Jack Murray: I just believe that if you've got the technology to be able to do it, why shouldn't it be done, and why waste the money on having a coroner's inquest or an inquest into anything if nobody's going to do anything about it? Why waste your time?
Ann Arnold: In north-eastern Victoria, near Wangaratta, Jack and Jenny Murray farewelled two of their four daughters after Christmas at the family farm. It was Monday 28 December, 2009.
Jenny Murray: We had our eldest daughter Debbie and Dave and their two children Jordan and Makeely. Then we had Sheree [tearful]...
Jack Murray: We had Sheree and Frank and their two children, and they all left here at about 9 o'clock in the morning to go back to Ulladulla, which is about a seven-hour drive. The last thing that I said to them as they drove out the gate was, 'Be careful.' And Dave just turned around and said to us that he was a travelling rep, so that he said, 'I'm on the road all the time, so I'm always careful.'
Ann Arnold: The two cars travelled up the Hume Highway into New South Wales, then turned right to Braidwood, where they stopped to walk the dogs, and swap kids. Their grandmother explains.
Jenny Murray: Normally the two younger ones like Abby and Makeely would travel with Frank and Sheree, and Jake and Jordie would travel with Deb and Dave. And then when they got to Braidwood they would stop, have an ice-cream, take the dogs for a walk and then the children would get in their respective cars then and travel home. And that's what they did that day.
Ann Arnold: Also passing through Braidwood on the way down to the coast were Bev Fricke, a primary school teacher at Goulburn South Public School, and her bricklayer husband, Norm.
Bev Fricke: Monday morning my husband and I were packing. We were leaving to go down and see his brother-in-law at Merry Beach. And we didn't leave til the afternoon from Goulburn. And we travelled down the Clyde Mountain towards Batemans Bay, and then headed north towards Merry Beach.
Ann Arnold: In Western Sydney, tanker driver David Carolan had kissed his fiancée and baby son goodbye, and headed to Shell's Clyde Refinery in Rosehill, which handles about half the state's petrol supply.
He pulled out of there at around lunchtime and headed south, bound for a service station at Cobargo, about a five-hour trip. Meanwhile, Bev and Norm Fricke made what should have been a harmless navigation error as they journeyed north on the highway between Batemans Bay and Ulladulla. They stopped at the wrong turnoff, then rejoined the highway.
Bev Fricke: The very first vehicle we saw was a Cootes tanker that was coming down a hill and rounding the bend. But we could tell it was going too fast and he was losing control of that truck. And it was swaying from side to side.
Ann Arnold: The Deputy State Coroner, Carmel Forbes, would accept expert evidence that the tanker was travelling too fast for that bend in the road. Although not over the speed limit of 100 kilometres an hour, the truck was well over the advisory speed limit for the curve, of 85 kilometres an hour.
Bev Fricke: As it approached us, it was on our side of the road, and my husband and I just knew that we weren't going to survive, that this tanker was going to hit us. You could see that the driver was trying to get the truck back onto his side of the road but it was going too fast. And it was swaying towards us, and then it started to roll.
Ann Arnold: It started to lift off on one side?
Bev Fricke: Yes, the wheels on the left-hand side were lifting, and it was rolling.
Ann Arnold: The inquest would later hear that the car driver behind the tanker watched as the rear trailer wheels on one side started to lift off the ground, and then that trailer itself was dragged along on its side, until gradually the cabin went over too. It was coming straight at the Frickes' car.
Bev Fricke: My husband accelerated and pulled over to the left, off the road, and the tanker rolled and the back end of the tanker rolled onto the back of our car. And it missed my husband's head by about 30 or 40 centimetres. And that forced us into a spin, and we spun I think about one and a half times. And then the car just took off backwards, into the bush, and we missed many big trees, and then we went over an embankment.
Ann Arnold: Travelling two cars behind the Frickes was the Bridge family, and behind them was the family of Debbie Bridge's sister, Sheree - the Montgomery family.
Here's Debbie and Sheree's mother, Jenny:
Jenny Murray: As the semi come round the bend, Sheree could see the trailer tipping and she said to Frank, 'Frank, the wheels are off the road, the wheels are off the road.' And that's when it just tipped, and Frank went one way and the truck when the other way, and of course when he could park then they jumped out and Sheree said to her two children, 'Stop there. Don't get out of the car, and look after the dog.'
And then they went back and Frank got someone to help them pull David out and then they pulled Debbie out. And then of course Debbie's saying, 'Get my girls, get my girls.' And that's when she realised then that there was no hope for our two precious girls [tearful].
Ann Arnold: Jordan and Makeely Bridge died in their car, and David Carolan died in his truck cabin.
One of Deputy State Coroner Carmel Forbes' main recommendations following the inquest was that New South Wales and Federal Ministers make it mandatory for all vehicles used in the transport of dangerous goods be fitted with electronic stability control.
Vehicle engineer Peter Hart routinely investigates road crashes. He says the 'intelligent controller', as he calls it, can anticipate a rollover.
Peter Hart: Often the ESC system knows of developing conditions much earlier than the driver does, so it can intervene at an earlier and therefore a safer stage.
Ann Arnold: Is it the case that drivers of prime movers in particular often aren't aware until it's too late exactly what their trailer is doing, if it is starting to tip a little?
Peter Hart: Yes, that's very much so. The trailer is coupled via a heavy pin to the prime mover, but the driver may not feel exactly what is happening at the trailer through that connection. So, it's quite common for even experienced drivers to be surprised by a trailer rolling over or perhaps skidding, sliding sideways, at the last moment. The driver just didn't perceive that the truck was close to that limit.
Ann Arnold: Peter Hart is also the chairman of the Australian Road Transport Suppliers Association, a group of companies which provide engineering and other services to the heavy vehicle industry. He works closely with the National Bulk Tanker Association, and he says tankers are particularly vulnerable to rollover.
Peter Hart: When a tanker full of liquid goes round a corner or a bend, the liquid tends to move to the outside, and so that exerts a force on the truck that needs to be resisted. The drivers are aware of this, but nonetheless the amount of slosh effect can vary or does vary with the load of the truck and the conditions, the radius of the curve. So there are some unknowns that the driver has to assess with each different bend. So it's a challenging task for a driver to allow for load movements on trucks.
Ann Arnold: Driving a tanker is something that Jack Murray, Debbie Bridge's father, knows a bit about, as a volunteer fire fighter.
Jack Murray: I'm a fireman with our local brigade, and we've got a tanker, and we know that if you're driving around a corner too fast, the sway of the water will give you an uncontrollable situation if you don't go round the turn at a reasonable speed. You might be able to get round in an ordinary truck or a car, but you can't with a tanker, with the water, because it sloshes to one side. So, you've got to drive at a speed that's safe, and that's all there is to it.
Ann Arnold: The consequences when it's a flammable liquid are much greater, and Jack Murray has seen that too.
Jack Murray: I've been captain of the Tarrawingee Brigade for 18 years and I've been on the fire services here for 50-odd years. We've been to many truck accidents and to hose down and to keep flammable goods from exploding or burning. So we see it quite regularly. It's something that we don't like seeing because of the mere fact of being so dangerous, and it's going to happen time and time again.
Ann Arnold: Because of the nature of their load—both moveable and flammable—heavy vehicle engineer Peter Hart agrees that fuel tankers are the most dangerous vehicles on the road.
Peter Hart: Yes, I think that's a fair statement. Not that the vehicle is inherently worse than, say, a milk tanker, but obviously the consequences of a crash are going to be greater, so in that sense it's the most dangerous truck.
Ann Arnold: The coroner said electronic stability control was not guaranteed to prevent rollovers, but it was very helpful. Two years after that inquest, her recommendation to make ESC mandatory for tanker fleets has not been implemented. To understand why not, you need to enter a bureaucratic maze.
The transportation of dangerous goods is managed largely by state agencies, such as Workcover and environment departments, rather than by transport authorities. And there's not much point making a change in one state when trucks routinely travel between states. The key decision-making body is CAP, the Competent Authorities Panel, made up of various dangerous goods regulators from around the country.
The New South Wales Environment Protection Authority is represented on the panel, and it took the coroner's recommendations about electronic stability control to meetings of the panel seven times.
Craig Lamberton is director of hazardous incidents and environmental health at the New South Wales EPA.
Craig Lamberton: The coroner's recommendation was a broad recommendation and so it needs to be broken down into the different components. For example, what to do with new vehicles that are manufactured from now on, and what to do with vehicles that were made 20 years ago.
So we've gone to the panel with proposals, which they've asked us to do consultation on with industry, which we've done. And we've found that, for example, with most new vehicles, for tankers this is, 80% or 90% of the industry already has that as an option. When you're buying a new vehicle that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, $10,000 more to have vehicle stability control is a good investment.
Ann Arnold: And what proportion of the fleet in New South Wales would be new?
Craig Lamberton: A relatively small proportion. Some of the vehicles…typically 20 years is the lifetime of a tanker vehicle, so really it's only been recent years that vehicle stability control has become available.
Ann Arnold: It would seem a relatively simple step to make it mandatory that all new trucks, at least, be installed with a proven new safety system. But Craig Lamberton from the New South Wales EPA said that for six meetings, the national panel was not convinced.
Craig Lamberton: You just think of the nature of the country. I mean, the eastern seaboard, Sydney, has a lot of vehicle movements, a lot of people, and if there is an incident then, as we've seen, these two tragedies - we're quite motivated, we can see the issues. If you're in a state that's less populous, with large areas of the state with very little population, it may not be a priority. Or they don't think it's a compelling argument. And sometimes this is the problem with these national approaches, is it becomes the fleet travels at the speed of the slowest member of the convoy. So this is the challenge that I guess we've always had with national models, although we do subscribe that this is the way to go.
Ann Arnold: The seventh CAP meeting where the ESC technology was raised again was late last year after the Mona Vale accident, and the other states were finally convinced. They agreed to an in-principle requirement for stability control on new dangerous goods vehicles. It's now up to states to make it law. New South Wales has taken that step, and it comes into effect on July 1st. That leaves the many older vehicles. Coroner Carmel Forbes noted the average tanker trailer stays on the road for 20 years, and they need stability control too. The Competent Authorities Panel has not yet been persuaded that all older vehicles should be legally required to be retrofitted.
For Jack Murray, who lost family in the south coast accident four years ago, that's hard to understand.
Jack Murray: I want to try to push to get the braking systems on these trailers fitted, irrespective of how much they cost, or they shouldn't be on the road.
Bev Fricke: Someone came to help me get out of the car because I couldn't open the door and get out going uphill. We were hearing explosions, and we were going up to see if the tanker driver was okay. And by this stage many cars had pulled over on the highway on the side of the road, and people were all running up towards the tanker. Two women were helping Debbie Bridge over to the side of the road. And she just looked at me and called out, 'Get my girls, get my girls, they're in the back of the car.'
Jack Murray: Anyway, about 20 to six I think it was that night we got a phone call to say that there'd been an accident, and we couldn't believe what had happened, and...
Ann Arnold: Who called you?
Jack Murray: Our daughter, our third daughter Sheree rang us. They couldn't get phone coverage from where they were, but anyway somebody had a phone that was able to work and she rang here.
Ann Arnold: Did she ring from the site?
Jack Murray: From the site. She rang from the site to tell us, and of course we were devastated, because she said that they couldn't save the girls, and Dave and Debbie were burnt beyond recognition.
Ann Arnold: Jenny and Jack Murray flew to Sydney early the next morning to see their daughter and son-in-law in hospital.
Jack Murray: We stopped there then until Dave passed away five days later. And Debbie was there for...we stopped there for seven months, I think it was. So we're all for trying to push...we don't want to sensationalise this about the accident, but we just want to make sure that it doesn't happen to anybody else or any other families.
Ann Arnold: And that means taking every step necessary to improve truck safety. There's another way that electronic stability control can be mandated for new vehicles at least, and that's through the Australian Design Rules, which apply to all new vehicles before they're registered. The design rules will be changed this year to include compulsory antilock braking—ABS—but not stability control. Vehicle engineer Peter Hart explains the difference.
Peter Hart: Well, antilock brakes are a less capable version of a stability control system. Antilock brakes operate to stop wheels locking up. Electronic stability control goes to the next level up, which is anticipating that the brakes should be applied to avoid a dangerous situation. So they're much more capable.
Ann Arnold: So trucks need both?
Peter Hart: Yes.
Ann Arnold: As honorary chairman of the Australian Road Transport Suppliers Association, Peter Hart has been writing to all transport ministers, referring to an 'epidemic' of heavy vehicle rollovers, and urging them to legislate for ESC for all heavy vehicles. He was lead consultant on a National Heavy Vehicle Braking Strategy which recommended to the government seven years ago that all new Australian heavy vehicles be fitted with electronic stability control.
If the recommendation was made in 2007, you must've thought it was necessary then.
Peter Hart: Yes, I did. It was clear where things were going, and we have lost time here.
Ann Arnold: And lives.
Peter Hart: Yes, yes, that's true.
Ann Arnold: For now, it's up to companies to decide to buy new tankers with ESC and to retrofit older ones.
The Coroner in the Princes Highway inquest said the general manager of Cootes—the truck owner—had given evidence that all Cootes trailers would be retrofitted. Cootes Transport was then owned by CHAMP Private Equity. It was sold the next year to McAleese.
Because one of their tankers was also involved in the Mona Vale crash, a McAleese spokeswoman said the company could not speak to Background Briefing, given the ongoing investigation. But the company provided a statement, saying all their new tankers are fitted with ESC, and all others would be retrofitted by the middle of this year.
Many in the trucking industry are pushing for compulsory ESC, including the National Bulk Tanker Association and the Australian Trucking Association, the peak body for the road transport industry.
The ATA's chairman, David Simon, runs a large, family-owned trucking and logistics business, Simon National Carriers, based in Queensland.
David Simon: I've been purchasing electronic stability on all of the trailers we've bought for the last seven or eight years really, since it's become reliable and robust in Australian conditions. If in the life of a trailer, which is typically up to 30 years, we save one rollover and potentially one life it's a very small investment to be fitting that electronic stability equipment. When you see videos and any of your listeners could take a look on the web and they'll find videos of trucks with electronic stability control in operation and switched off, you'll see how effective those systems are. They're incredible.
Ann Arnold: But without legal compulsion, will companies retrofit their old tanker trailers?
David Simon: It's certainly a significantly higher cost to retrofit an older vehicle. In reality I don't think that will happen very often. It may happen if it's mandated for tankers, there may be a requirement, but for the majority of the fleet it would simply not be cost effective.
Ann Arnold: David Simon, chairman of the Australian Trucking Association.
Apart from the coroner's recommendations, other broader moves might help improve tanker safety. There's a review of the national heavy vehicle auditing system, which hasn't been picking up many defects.
The new National Heavy Vehicle Regulator was launched last week, a body which will bring many aspects of trucking under national laws, including permits, fatigue management and vehicle inspection standards. But it only covers some aspects of dangerous goods transportation.
With electronic stability control not yet mandated, despite the clear recommendation from the south coast inquest, Jack Murray is left questioning it all.
Jack Murray: We were at the inquest for the three days. There was a lot of money spent on solicitors, barristers, court people, the coroner, expert witnesses, policemen, independent investigator. They had big folders of notes that they'd spent months putting together, and I'm just worried that they've just been pigeon-holed and nothing been done about them. So why waste the money if you're not going to do anything about it?
Ann Arnold: The family, including Debbie Bridge herself, hadn't wanted the inquest. They were persuaded that it might help save other lives. It was held in Batemans Bay in 2011. Bev Fricke was there.
Bev Fricke: I was surprised to see Debbie at the inquest, and I was very surprised to hear her speak. She held no malice towards the truck driver. But she was very concerned about trucks and how easily they could be involved in a collision.
Ann Arnold: And apparently she had brought prepared notes but barely even needed to look at them.
Bev Fricke: No, no, she just spoke off the cuff.
Ann Arnold: And physically it was quite extraordinary with the injuries that she had, that she was even able to do that.
Bev Fricke: I was very surprised. She had severe injuries, a lot of scarring, a lot of makeup, and she told me that she had to wear a full body suit all the time but she made a special effort to take the body suit off for the coronial inquiry.
Ann Arnold: But her voice was good and strong.
Bev Fricke: Her voice was very strong.
Ann Arnold: Lawyer David Ford was also deeply impressed by Debbie's speech.
David Ford: It was just a remarkable speech. And the thrust of her speech was that what had happened to her and her family was unimaginable and would be with her for the remainder of her life, and she also expressed that steps be taken, and hopefully they would be taken, so that that type of accident would just never occur again. And I sat next to her for the actual three days of that coronial inquest, and I was in admiration of her and her spirit and her determination to get that message across.
Ann Arnold: The coroner also recommended general driver education on how this particular accident happened, and training on rollover prevention for dangerous goods drivers in particular. There had been evidence that just a speed difference of a few kilometres per hour can change a stable truck into an unstable one, especially with a fluid load.
Debbie Bridge decided to take action herself. Debbie's father, Jack Murray:
Jack Murray: She even took the step after the inquest to go down to Melbourne to talk to the Cootes drivers down there. The Cootes' representative was at the inquest in Batemans Bay, and she got talking to him and she wanted to put her, I suppose, thoughts and feelings to the drivers, and he arranged the meeting down there. There was about 50 or 60 drivers gathered in the afternoon tea room at Cootes Transport. I went with her, and she spoke to them and tried to instil into them to be careful and to make sure that you always drove within your means and put the trucks through not too much stress, I suppose you'd say, to be able to have an accident. I should've had a tape recorder there, but I hadn't, and she did a very good speech I thought, and the drivers were very impressed with her and that.
Ann Arnold: And did some of them come and talk to her afterwards?
Jack Murray: Yes, there was different ones came up to her after the talk and congratulated her on her talk and said how sorry they felt for her and the family. And they were to have another meeting in Sydney the next day or two after the Melbourne meeting. But anyway, the drivers in Sydney…we had already booked our plane fares, planes and accommodation in Sydney, and the drivers pulled out of the meeting up there and would not front. So therefore she never got to talk to the Sydney lot.
Ann Arnold: You were caring for her here all this time. After the accident she came back and after hospital she came back to live with you so you could look after her. How did she get through each day?
Jenny Murray: With a struggle. She was always suffering, you know? And always thinking of Dave and the girls, and just tried to...the only thing that she had left was the dog, and her and the dog were inseparable.
Ann Arnold: The dog is Millie, a Jack Russell/fox terrier cross, which had survived the accident.
Jenny Murray: She'd get up of a morning, early, and her and the dog would go for a walk, and then of an evening her and the dog would go for another walk, you know? They were just so inseparable. Had she have not had Millie, I don't know.
Ann Arnold: Debbie Bridge died on 26 February 2012, three months after the inquest.
Jenny Murray: She just couldn't handle it anymore.
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The RSPCA says the starvation of hundreds of animals at a Northern Territory cattle station is one of the worst cases of animal cruelty it's seen in Australia.
The Territory Ombudsman has released a damning report into the Mataranka cattle station run by Charles Darwin University.
It's estimated 800 cattle died as a result of neglect between September last year and May this year.
The RSPCA's Scientific Officer for Farm Animals Melina Tensen says the incident is inexcusable and the Territory Government as well as the university must investigate to make sure it never happens again.
"It possibly is one of the worst cases of neglect and cruelty that would certainly not be an understatement," Ms Tensen said.
"The condition of these animals was really just appalling and the fact that no one intervened in an appropriate manner in an appropriate time frame is really just something that we don't want to see in the future."
Ms Tensen says the Northern Territory Government neglected its responsibilities.
"It shows general incompetence on behalf of the manager of the station but also a neglect of responsibility on behalf of the Northern Territory Government, whose staff basically seem to not understand their responsibilities when it comes to complaints and enforcing the animal welfare act."
The Ombudsman's Investigation
The Northern Territory Ombudsman says Charles Darwin University has not explained how 800 cattle starved to death on its teaching and commercial cattle station.
The Ombudsman Carolyn Richards has released her report into the deaths that happened between September last year and May this year at Mataranka Station.
The report has criticised the university and government departments for taking six months to properly respond to reports about the animal neglect.
Ms Richards says her investigators spent a lot of time talking with the university and examining their documents.
"There's been no real explanation as for why these animals are, or were the way they were shown in the photos," Ms Richards said.
"The only explanation that CDU were able to come up with was to accuse my investigator of elongating the photographs in the report to make things look worse than they were."
The Ombudsman has called on CDU to review its complaints procedures after senior staff failed to act on reports of starving cattle.
Staff and students made complaints about the treatment of the cattle, but the University's Director of Vocational Training Dr Brian Heim dismissed the complaints as "trivial", and the university's Animal Ethics Committee chairman, Professor Bob Wasson, kept Ian Gray as station manager when he was "incompetent", Ms Richards said in her report.
She said the committee chairman should be given conflict of interest training and the University should present a new station business plan within three months, including animal stocking rates, food and water provision, staffing and lines of responsibility.
The University says practices at the cattle station have improved since cattle starved to death there.
The Vice Chancellor Barney Glover says he's not convinced 800 cattle died but he recognises the matter has tarnished the university's reputation.
"Any incident like this involving the welfare of animals and allegations of neglect are clearly damaging to an Australian university, there's no doubt about it," he said.
"What I can say is the current situation at Mataranka Station is one that we believe is dramatically improved."
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