An Albion Park woman has been airlifted to hospital after a serious crash on the Far South Coast on Saturday.
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The woman and her husband were riding their motorbikes on Wallaga Lake Road into Bermagui about 2.50pm
Narooma police said the woman failed to negotiate a left-hand bend and subsequently rode straight across the road, up an embankment and into a small tree, before being thrown from her trike.
She was placed on a spinal board and transported to Dickinson Oval on Lamont Street, Bermagui, where she was later airlifted by Snowy Hydro SouthCare Helicopter to the Canberra Hospital.
The patient also suffered bruising and swelling to the head, a broken upper right arm, and possible fractured ribs.
The condition of the road surface on a bend on the northern approach into Bermagui is being blamed for the accident, almost exactly a year after another motorcyclist was killed at the same spot.
In September 2015, a motorcyclist in his 50s died at the scene after he lost control crossed the centre line and collided with a utility being driven by a man from the local area.
After that accident there were calls from locals to repair the road surface and or reduce the speed limit to 80km/h. In 2010, then Minister Steve Whan’s son was involved in a two-car crash at the bend.
Bermagui resident Michael Brown is among the locals concerned about the road surface and he went to Bega Valley Shire Council on Monday to make a complaint.
“I nearly had an accident at the same spot a week ago and a car ran off the road there last week. We need to get it fixed before someone else dies,” he said.