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Locals call for added safety measures along Redoubt Road after car crash fatality By LAURA BROOKES

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edoubt Road residents are calling for safety measures to be put in place following Sunday afternoon’s fatal car crash, which neighbours describe as a “very bizarre” incident. At about 12:15pm, a car came off the road and travelled 10 metres across a paddock before colliding with the side of a two-storey brick house. In the moments after the crash, witnesses saw a young Caucasian woman frantically pacing in the driveway, and emergency services pulling a front-seat passenger from the vehicle.

Neighbours say it sounded like someone had dropped a load of metal or rubble from the tailgate of a truck, or slammed a heavy door shut. Police have confirmed the 19-year-old female passenger died at the scene after 15 minutes of CPR treatment. The female driver – also 19 – was taken to hospital with moderate injuries. Police say the two people who were in the house at the time were not injured. Redoubt Road resident Grant McFlinn says the incident is a sobering reminder that the regularity of car crashes along the winding Redoubt Road is an ongoing issue for locals.

When Mr McFlinn first moved into his house 10 years ago, it was only six months before his fence was taken out by a driver. On Friday night, a section of his neighbour’s fence was also destroyed after a drunk driver swerved onto the property. It’s the third time this has occurred on neighbour Mahendra Prasad’s property in the past five years. “These fences have no capacity to stop a car,” says McFlinn. “We all knew that already, but we’ve just seen it twice in three days. It’s definitely concerning.” On the same stretch of road, about 500m up hill from the crash

site, a subdivision of residential houses is located down a bank, with merely a fence and a few trees to guard against cars going off the road. McFlinn calls it an accident waiting to happen. “If anyone goes through a fence on that corner, they won’t just be landing on the patio... they’ll be landing on top of somebody’s house.” For the past 14 years, Redoubt Road residents have successfully petitioned for an 80km/h speed limit to be reduced to 50km/h, but Mr McFlinn says drivers still fail to prepare themselves for the sharp bends by choosing to drive above ➤ Turn to Page 5 the current limit.

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