The Bega Valley Shire Council says it will spend the next few days repairing the bumpy road surface at the northern entrance to Bermagui where another motorcyclist recently crashed.
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The female driver of a tricycle motorbike was seriously injured when she lost control of her trike at the spot last weekend crashing into the embankment. The women has been discharged from Canberra Hospital but we are hearing she may have been transferred to Royal North Shore and is still in a serious condition. Read more
Terry Dodds, Bega council’s director transport and utilities, said council’s contractor would be onsite today, with repairs expected to take two days.
Members of the Bermagui chapter of the Cancer Research Advocate Bikers or CRABs are also keen to see the road surface repaired.
They inspected the road surface on Sunday just before their annual charity duck race – see photos here – and said it was high time that council improved the road surface.
“It’s been like that too long and all the roads around town are like that,” Bermagui CRABs president Stuart Willenberg said. “This girl is probably going to be a quadriplegic because of the road. Us locals know the road, but people coming to town don’t have any idea.”
Yet others have called on the speed limit to be reduced from 100km/h to 80km/h from the Cobargo turn-off into Bermagui, but the CRABs said the road just needed to be fixed and not the speed limit tampered with.
Stan Gorton
Walkley-nominated journalist based at The Islander on Kangaroo Island with an interest in the local community and the environment.
Walkley-nominated journalist based at The Islander on Kangaroo Island with an interest in the local community and the environment.
