The sole victim of a horror bus crash in Queensland has been identified as a young Argentine-Italian tourist who was on the trip of a lifetime.
Serena Andreatta, 26, had been travelling through Thailand and Vietnam with a friend before her life was tragically cut short in North Queensland this week.
Ms Andreatta had been on a charter coach, travelling from Cairns to Airlie Beach, when it rolled off the Bruce Highway near Gumlu in Queensland's Whitsundays.
There were 29 people on the FlixBus bus when it crashed about 4pm on Thursday, including the driver, a 70-year-old man who was taken to hospital with minor injuries.
Ms Andreatta sadly died from her injuries in hospital later that night.
Two other passengers suffered life-threatening injuries and remain in hospital as of Saturday morning. The driver, a Mackay man, has been released from hospital.
Queensland Premier David Crisafulli said Ms Andreatta had been in 'her prime'.
'Someone in the prime of their life, on the trip of a lifetime, in another country, has lost their life,' he told ABC News on Friday.
The sole victim of a horror bus crash in Queensland has been identified as a young Argentine-Italian tourist who was on the trip of a lifetime in Australia
'You've got young people in many cases living out their dream in a foreign country and to have something like this happen, I can only imagine what that feels like for the parents and families, in many cases, on the other side of the globe.'
FlixBus has since claimed the driver was not speeding and tested negative for drugs and alcohol after undergoing mandatory testing.
Queensland Police are yet to confirm the company's claims.
Officers are still working to determine how the fatal crash unfolded, which comes just two years after a similar incident near Mackay earlier this year.
'There was an incident involving a similar bus in February, just south of Mackay, where the bus left the roadway, ran into a barbed wire fence and the (then) 55-year-old female driver at the time was issued a traffic infringement notice as a result,' Superintendent Dean Cavanagh told reporters on Friday.
He said the majority of the passengers onboard were tourists from overseas.
'It was a very complex incident, a very serious incident,' he said.
More to come.
Serena Andreatta, 26, had been travelling through Thailand and Vietnam with a friend before her life was tragically cut short in North Queensland this week