Premium Content Subscriber only A Bowen Basin mine manager has recalled the night he and his workmates almost lost their lives on the Peak Downs Highway - in the hope sharing their story might save others. While working for Peabody at Coppabella, Dane Nielsen was travelling out for night shift with a car full of his team when another vehicle overtook a B-double on double white lines. Mr Nielsen's vehicle had nowhere to go, veered off the road and was T-boned by other vehicle. The accident shut the highway for five hours but thankfully, everyone was OK. "Having lived through it, I still remember those brief few seconds when my life flashed before my eyes," he said.