Sunliner Express was an Australian interstate coach operator.
[2][3] Sunliner was owned by current Transit Systems proprietors Lance Francis, Graham Leishman and Neil Smith who owned the Peninsula Bus Lines operation on the New South Wales Central Coast, Chalmers Coaches, Sydney and in 1985 purchased Bayside Bus Lines, Brisbane.
At the time, this crash was the worst in Australian road transport history in terms of number of deaths.
[3] These were replaced by a fleet of Austral, Custom Coaches and Pressed Metal Corporation South Australia bodied Scania K112TR and K113TRs.
[2] Sunliner's livery was a silver and two blue livery with a round sunset emblem with a silhouette of a palm tree and a white sea bird emblazoned within it.