Legacy Way tunnel crash: Ex-police officer identified as one of two killed in horror crash in Brisbane

By Olivia Day For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 23:38 BST, 1 May 2024 | Updated: 00:11 BST, 2 May 2024

A former police officer has been identified as one of two people killed in a horror three-vehicle crash in a major city tunnel. 

Bruce Daley, aged in his 50s, was killed in the pile-up in Brisbane’s Legacy Way Tunnel at Mount Coot-Tha shortly after 3pm on Wednesday.

It’s understood Mr Daley left the police force 10 years ago.

A woman, aged in her 20s, who was a passenger in a silver sedan was also killed. 

The female driver of the sedan remains in a critical condition after undergoing surgery in Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. 

Mr Daley had been heading north in the tunnel in a black Audi S3 when it collided with the silver sedan which then smashed into a truck.

A witness claimed the Audi had been travelling at speeds of 200km/hour just seconds before it ploughed into the sedan, the Courier Mail reports.  

Ex-cop Bruce Daley (pictured) is one of two people killed in a horror crash in a Brisbane tunnel

Mr Daley had been heading north in the tunnel in a black Audi S3 when it collided with the silver sedan which then smashed into a truck (pictured, a smashed car in the tunnel)

‘I was driving behind the Audi… for some reason (the driver) slowed down and stopped when we entered the tunnel,’ they told the publication. 

‘(The driver) didn’t indicate or put hazards on… I indicated around him and kept going… a few people beeped at him.’

The witness heard a ‘car engine roaring’ as the Audi passed them before 20 seconds later they saw ‘smoke and debris was flying around’.

They said the  Audi was ‘doing 200km/h plus past me in the tunnel’. 

The speed limit in the Legacy Way tunnel is 80km/hour.  

Harrowing photos of the crash show the mangled wreckages of the Audi and sedan.

An exhaust pipe from the Audi was among several parts of the interiors of the car that was visible at the crash scene.

Debris from the wreckage of the three vehicles had been scattered for several hundred metres inside the tunnel.

It’s understood Mr Daley (pictured) left the Queensland Police Force 10 years ago 

Pictured is one of the wrecked cars inside Brisbane’s Legacy Way tunnel on Wednesday

The collision shut down the city tunnel with both inbound and outbound lanes closed for over two hours during peak hour. 

Commuters on their way home from work experienced delays across the city. 

Queensland police duty officer Acting Inspector Stephen Crabbe described the crash scene as ‘extensive’ on Wednesday. 

‘Police are appealing for information in relation to a black Audi s3 that would have been travelling northbound on the Centenary Motorway through the Legacy Way tunnel,’ he told a press conference. 

The Legacy Way tunnel links the Western Freeway at Toowong in Brisbane’s east with the inner-north. 

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Legacy Way tunnel crash: Ex-police officer identified as one of two killed in horror crash in Brisbane

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