October 1 Mona Vale.  Inferno: The Mona Vale crash. Photo:
Supplied  Safety recommendations made by a coroner after a
Cootes petrol tanker rolled over and exploded four years ago
have still not been implemented. Two children and their father
as well as the truck driver died in that accident.  Bev Fricke
was a passenger in the first of three cars hit in the crash near
Batemans Bay in 2009. This month, she read of a devastatingly
similar truck accident in Mona Vale. ''Straight away I thought,
'not again','' she said. ''My next thought was that it was
preventable.''  In the Mona Vale crash, a Cootes tanker ran out
of control on an incline and went off the road at a bend. It
burst into flames after it rolled and collided with a Subaru,
killing driver Peter Wem, 73, and a passenger aged 71.  David
Bridge and his two daughters, Jordan and Makeely Bridge.  David
Bridge and his two daughters Jordan and Makeely were killed when
a Cootes tanker collided with their car causing it to engulf in
flames. Photo: Graham Tidy