Danger zone
THE contentious campaign for the Black Spur realignment has come back into the spotlight after two accidents occurred on the winding bends in the South Gippsland Highway between Koonwarra and Meeniyan last Wednesday.
Meeniyan Police attended the initial accident at 1.30pm where a driver lost control of his car and ploughed into an embankment. The New South Wales man was uninjured.
Sgt Paul McDonald said the driver was unfamiliar with the road and should have taken extra caution.
“It was a wet road so as always we would like to remind drivers to drive to the conditions and slow down when it is slippery,” he said.
At about 5.45pm, a 19 year old Korumburra woman was travelling towards Meeniyan when she lost control on a left hand bend between Caithness and Minns roads.
The woman’s car ran off the road and into an embankment and rolled onto its side.
The driver was sent to Wonthaggi Hospital with a neck injury and was later transferred to the Alfred Hospital for further scans.
Gippsland South MLA Danny O’Brien said the accidents reinforced the need for the realignment to be prioritised.
“It’s not good enough that nearly two years after funding was provided by the previous Coalition Government for a business case that it’s not finished and has not gone to government for budget consideration,” he said.
“This is a really important project and it looks like Roads Minister Luke Donnellan has put it on a go-slow so he doesn’t have to find the money for it.”
VicRoads eastern region regional director Scott Lawrence said VicRoads would acknowledge the results of these investigations as it prepares for future funding considerations for safety improvement works along the South Gippsland Highway at Black Spur to make the road safer.
Crash course: two accidents occurred on the notorious Black Spur section of the South Gippsland Highway between Koonwarra and Meeniyan last Wednesday. Photos courtesy of Gerard Bruning at Four Corners Framing, Leongatha.
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