Hansard debates

Mrs McARTHUR (Western Victoria) (12:19): My question is to the Minister for Roads. On 14 February the Warracknabeal Herald featured an article covering a serious accident on Warracknabeal-Rainbow Road in which a woman driving was lucky to be alive after sun glare forced her off the edge of a single-lane section of bitumen. The article quoted Leading Senior Constable Tony Clark as saying the woman’s car rolled ‘because of the dangerous drop-off’, which was approximately 3 or 4 inches from the road surface to the dirt. He said:

VicRoads seriously needs to give attention to country roads as something like this or worse has been waiting to happen.

Minister, my question is: what is your response to Leading Senior Constable Clark and the people in rural and regional Victoria who are sick of driving on roads with dangerous surfaces that can kill them?