For 18 months, Woodhill’s Monica Hambleton has been waiting for what she says is inevitable – another death on the highway.
With a bird’s eye view of the highway from her home on the hill she has seen her fair share of Mount Lindesay Highway traffic crashes.
Ms Hambleton took to Facebook after the recent fatality on the highway at Woodhill to ask why action still had not been taken.
She said they can tell if there has been a crash on the highway as the traffic slows right down and it is quite easy to get out of their driveway.
“If the crash is out here we normally hear all the sirens first,” she said.
“That’s when I can usually go outside and see the traffic starting to bank up.”
Ms Hambleton said, on average, there would be at least a crash per week near her home.
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“I think the crashes that are happening now are much worse and are becoming much more frequent,” she said.
“People are taking so many risks to get around these trucks because there are just so many more of them travelling through to Beaudesert now.
“Not only is there not enough signage to mark our driveways, there isn’t anyway people can go around you if you have to turn into the driveway.
“There’s already been a crash basically in my yard, next it’ll be in our driveway.”
Ms Hambleton had the Times on speakerphone while turning into her driveway last week, and she said it was just another close call, with cars trying to get around her without much thought for any other road users.
“You’ve just heard how stressful that turn is,” she said.
“I’ve just had to apologise to my passengers for someone else’s unsafe behaviour.”
Ms Hambleton said wildlife on the roads was also a major issue as drivers didn’t slow down at night time.
“All the construction around the place is just pushing more kangaroos onto our road,” she said.
“We know this is a kangaroo corridor because of the creek and people just whiz through.”
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Ms Hambleton said she understands everything is driven by money, but it was time something was done for the Mount Lindesay Highway.
“Unfortunately this won’t stop, it'll just keep getting worse,” she said.
“There’s a lot of things wrong and they just keep putting in more developments without any thought to this.
“This road just isn’t capable of handling much more traffic.”