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Fix it now! By GEORGIA WESTGARTH and LACHLAN MOORHEAD
Above: Locals said they heard five loud bangs before running to the Picture: GARY SISSONS scene. 139859 Right: Residents rally for change after deaths continue to rise at the Robinsons Road and Westernport Highway intersection. 140025 Picture: STEWART CHAMBERS to 80km/h. “I would like to see the speed limit brought down tomorrow; and it needs a roundabout starting construction as soon as possible,” Mr Smith said. Hastings MP Neale Burgess is backing the residents’ concerns
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and reiterated calls for a roundabout. “The reality is we have to make the unsafe intersection safe enough ... I believe a roundabout would fix that.” Mr Burgess also said he wanted Continued page 9
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around,” he said. In August 2013, a 36-year-old Mornington motorcyclist died at the same intersection after crashing into a car. More than 15 residents who live off the intersection are calling for a speed reduction from 100km/h
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PEARCEDALE residents have made an impassioned plea for a roundabout to be built at a notorious local intersection which claimed another life on Friday – this time a 19-year-old woman. Local anger has reached a point where residents are reported to be considering taking matters into their own hands and blocking the road until it is made safe. The teenager from Mt Eliza was driving west on Robinsons Road when her vehicle crashed into a Ford Ranger ute as she entered the Westernport Highway intersection just before 6.30pm on Friday 29 May. The ute then collided with another car which was turning left. The teenager was airlifted to The Alfred hospital but died on arrival. Pearcedale resident Shannon Smith, who was first on the scene, said he heard the crash and knew it was bad. He is one of many calling for the speed limit to be dropped and a roundabout built immediately. “We don’t want to keep running up there and pulling broken bodies out of cars,” Mr Smith said. “I ran up like we always do ... the car was up on the safety rails and was on a really sharp angle facing downwards. Mr Smith stayed at the scene until the helicopter left and said he doesn’t want to see it anymore. “If there’d been a roundabout she wouldn’t have been killed,” he
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