Maybe you heard differently—but the Gillies Range Road is open.

How many people died on Gillies range?

Cairns High School Bus Crash (Senior Memorial)Print Page

In February 1987, a school bus careered off the side of the Gillies Highway near Gordonvale, south of Cairns, and plunged twenty metres down a mountainside into rainforest, killing eight high school students and injuring 30 students, teachers and the bus driver.

Is the Brisbane Valley Highway open?

Brisbane Valley Highway remains closed in both directions as emergency services respond to a serious traffic crash south of Fernvale.