Question: In what Australian state was there a 1987 road accident disaster that killed eight people ?

text: List of disasters in Australia by death toll
Significant incidents resulting in fewer than 10 deaths

This is a list of disasters and tragic events in modern Australia sorted by death toll.
Disaster Location Deaths Date Notes
Bushfire Gippsland , Victoria 9 1932 Feb 4 Locations affected included Gilderoy , Noojee and Erica in North Gippsland . Worst incident was at Erica where six people were killed
Bushfire Longwood , Victoria 9 1965 Jan 17-19 Death toll included seven members of one family who were lost when their car crashed and was engulfed in the fires
Rail accident Violet Town , Victoria 9 1969 Feb 7 Violet Town rail accident . Head-on collision after driver died at controls
Fire Kings Cross , New South Wales 9 1981 Aug Rembrandt Apartments Hostel Fire . Fire
Massacre Melbourne 9 1987 Dec 8 Queen Street massacre . Shooting massacre
Air accident Williamtown , New South Wales - Lord Howe Island 9 1994 Oct 2 Seaview Air Aero Commander 690 crashes between Williamtown , NSW and Lord Howe Island
Fire Kew , Victoria 9 1996 Apr 8 Kew Cottages fire . Fire at a Melbourne home for the disabled kills nine men . Coronial inquest in 1997 finds there was no proper fire safety system in place at the time of the fire
Landslide Gracetown , Western Australia 9 1996 Sep 27 5 adults and 4 children died when a cliff face collapsed at Cowaramup Bay near Gracetown ( Margaret River )
Bushfire Eyre Peninsula , South Australia 9 2005 Jan 11 Eyre Peninsula bushfire
Storm Melbourne , Victoria 9 2016 Nov 21 Nine people died of thunderstorm asthma and approximately 8,500 sought hospital treatment after a storm hit Melbourne
Insurrection Norfolk Island 8 1834 Jan 15 Convict mutiny . Six convicts and two guards killed . 11 convicts were later executed
Civil unrest Broome , Western Australia 8 1920 Dec 23-26 Broome Race Riots . Brawling and rioting between Japanese and Koepanger ( Malay & Timorese ) pearl divers
Air accident Snowy Mountains , New South Wales 8 1931 Mar 21 Southern Cloud
Air accident Jervis Bay , New South Wales 8 1943 Apr 14 Two RAAF Bristol Beauforts collided whilst performing demonstration flight for war correspondents on board a naval vessel
Bushfire Wandilo , South Australia 8 1958 Apr 8 firefighters died
Explosion Sandy Bay , Tasmania 8 1974 Sept 5 8 died when newly installed boiler at Mt . St. Canice laundry breached after transport interlocks were not removed from safety valves and boiler was subsequently fired
Bushfire Western Victoria 8 1977 Feb Around Streatham was the worst affected area
Road accident Near Gordonvale , Queensland 8 1987 Feb 4 Bus returning from school camp veered off-road . All of those lost were students of Cairns State High School aged 15-17 . 12 more people were seriously injured . Subsequent inquests ruled that faulty brakes on the vehicle were the cause of the accident
Cyclone Onslow & Carnarvon , Western Australia 8 1995 Feb 24-26 Cyclone Bobby . Seven of the deaths occurred when two fishing trawlers sank near Onslow
Air accident Off Whyalla , South Australia 8 2000 May 31 Whyalla Airlines Disaster . All on board drowned , one body was never recovered