‘Alarming’ traffic light design at Brisbane intersection where young cyclist died after being hit by bus

Green light created impression both bike and bus had right of way when 20-year-old Max Patrick McDowall was killed, coroner’s court hears

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A forensic crash investigator was “alarmed” at the design of the intersection where a 20-year-old cyclist died, because its traffic lights gave both vehicles the impression they had right of way simultaneously, the Queensland coroner’s court has heard.

A recreation of the fatal accident showed that the driver of the Brisbane city council bus, Andrew Rudnicki, had almost no opportunity to see Maximillian Patrick McDowall, before he struck and killed him.

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