We left Broome and spent about 9 hours on the road and ended up 30kms from where we started due to this head on between 2 road trains on the Minnie bridge which closed it to traffic both ways.
The truck on the left was carrying cattle and just prior to this shot being taken, the driver was up on the top of the trailer shooting the cattle that had been injured in the collision. The one on the right seemed to be carrying a mixed bag of stuff including someone's Landrover which was well and truly on fire.
(In Jul 2013, Rhoda and I did a three week tour of the Kimberley in Western Australia. The tour started in Broome and ended in Alice Springs and was just about the best three weeks imaginable. As I get time, I'll drop photos of the tour into my “From the Archives” album in chronological order. My first posting is at http://365project.org/terryliv/from-the-archiv/2015-01-08 .
For O/S 365ers, the Kimberley is a largely uninhabited region in NW Western Australia. It covers an area of about 425,000 sq kms, about three times the size of England and roughly the same size as California. It is hot and dry during the dry season and bloody wet during the wet season when all of the rivers and creeks flood and all roads become impassable for months on end. The population of the region is around 39,000 most of whom who live in the small towns of Broome, Derby, Wyndham, Kununurra, Halls Creek and Fitzroy Crossing. Apart from tourism, the main industry is cattle with many very large cattle stations in the region.
I hope you enjoy the tour)
Aaaaah, flames. Let me get my hose. It's rather ironic that the fire is above lots of water. I hope nobody (aside from the cattle of course) was hurt.
At least this driver had a gun to take care of the situation. We had a job involving a truck with sheep tipping over a bridge. That was above another freeway. It was very messy, and there were not enough bullets.
@peterlgrave I should have pointed out Peter that it was a one lane bridge (many of them in the Kimberley are) and obviously each truckie thought that the other would give way or they didn't see each other approaching until it was too late to stop. Bonk!!!!
Fantastic capture Terry, in your case lucky to be in the right place at the right time, not so for the drivers, thanks for the background to the shot always adds to the image:)
At least this driver had a gun to take care of the situation. We had a job involving a truck with sheep tipping over a bridge. That was above another freeway. It was very messy, and there were not enough bullets.