After three serious accidents and one fatality in the last five weeks, the government is taking action on Windang Road.
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Residents have voiced concerns about speeding in the street, which has a signposted 80km/h speed limit and long straight stretches.
Dean Bendall and his wife Alison Louth live on the road and he told the Mercury last week that some people use it “as a bloody drag strip”.
“They should have [speed] cameras here,” Mr Bendall said.
“They’ve got to do something about it. There’s going to be more of it.”
On the afternoon of September 14, a three-vehicle collision claimed the life of 18-year-old Jesse Brown.
Another teen was charged with dangerous driving over that crash.
A week later a woman had to be cut out of her white station wagon after it collided with a cement-mixing truck.
And just seven days ago a pregnant woman suffered serious abdominal injuries when the car she was a passenger in collided with a Holden Astra.
There is a red-light speed camera at the Boronia Avenue intersection, south of where these accidents occurred, which was upgraded from a red-light only camera in May 2011.
However, the government is now looking to introduce further safety measures.
“In light of a recent fatality on Windang Road and in response to community concerns, the Centre for Road Safety will work with Roads and Maritime Services to investigate options for possible safety improvements in the area,” Centre for Road Safety executive director Bernard Carlon said.
“Locations for red-light, fixed speed and mobile speed cameras are prioritised by evaluating crash data and other road safety information.”
Mr Carlon said residents can nominate locations for red-light cameras or speed cameras via the Safer Roads website where they were assessed by experts.
According to Transport for NSW figures, in the five-year period from 2011-2015 – before the recent spate of accidents - there were 17 crashes on Windang Road between the intersection of Windang Road and the Primbee bypass and the end of the 80km/h zoned section near Boundary Road.
Nine people were injured in these crashes, five of them seriously.
Transport for NSW figures stated speed was a contributing factor in only one of these crashes.