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Three people died as a result of a two-car crash at Ledcourt, north-west of Stawell, last week.
Emergency services responded to another truck crash in this zone this week after a driver lost control and crashed into a tree.
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driver → die → tree
Twelve people have died on a straight stretch of highway between the Victorian towns of Stawell and Horsham in the last six years.
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Three people, including a 14-year-old girl, died following a horror crash involving two cars and a truck at Ledcourt, near Dadswells Bridge, on September 27.
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Yesterday emergency services responded to the notorious section of the Western Highway to attend to truck crash in Laharum where a driver lost control and smashed into a tree.
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The driver was flown to hospital with serious, non-life-threatening injuries.
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Some residents who live near the perilous stretch argue the condition of the road is a key factor, while others believe driver distraction is to blame.
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Dadswells Bridge farmer Ellie McDonald, whose property runs along this stretch, says it is likely a mix of the two.
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"It's just getting busier and busier," she said.
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We moved here in 2011 and the traffic has increased exponentially.
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"That combination doesn't work well with degrading roads."
'A sitting duck'
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In September 2021, two woman died on the Western Highway near Dadswells Bridge in a crash that closed the road for nearly 18 hours.
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The following year a paramedic died in a head-on crash on the same road.
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Ms McDonald said fatigue was a factor on a road, halfway between Melbourne and Adelaide, but speed limits were not helping.
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"Every couple of days I'll hear cars or trucks tooting where a caravan or car has stopped to turn into a local businesses … if you've got vehicles doing 80 kilometres an hour, you almost get rear-ended," she said.
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You are a sitting duck in the middle of the road if you're trying to turn."
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Victoria police Senior Sargeant Mathew Olston said he was aware of a number of recent serious collisions in the area.
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"But it is important to make clear the sad reality that nowhere is immune form road trauma," he said.
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"Some victims have, sadly, been young and inexperienced, with a number of collisions recorded at night."
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Ms McDonald has asked VicRoads to review the speed limit.
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VicRoads has been contacted for comment.
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A committee representing 10 municipalities across Victoria's west said the region had been "neglected".
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Western Highway Action Committee chairman Rod Ward said the government needed to upgrade and invest in maintaining the road, which he said was Australia’s third-busiest straight route.
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He also wants to see the highway duplication at Buangor to continue west to the town of Stawell.
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Mr Ward said there was growing concern around Dadswells Bridge and that safety upgrades were critical.
“I think the lack of investment in the Western Highway has been a direct cause of some of the accidents,” he said.
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The committee has recorded 658 fatalities or serious injuries along the Western Highway in the past decade.
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