A MAN who had a close call on Mount Cotton Road says a fatality will occur soon unless the government takes urgent action.
Chris Aynsley was a passenger in a car driven by his wife Kate Pierpoint-Aynsley when an SUV travelling in the opposite direction veered into their lane near Coorang Road, Carbrook.
Mr Aynsley said they avoided a crash because his wife reacted quickly, swerving onto the side of the road.
“The government needs to do something for the safety of everyone,” Mr Aynsley said.
“Otherwise a fatal crash is going to happen.”
Dashboard camera footage shows a black Holden moving into their lane.
Two people were injured in three crashes on Mount Cotton Road at Mount Cotton and Carbrook in just two days last week.
A woman sustained serious leg injuries in a crash involving a car and truck on Tuesday last week.
The following day a man was taken to hospital with head injuries after a crash involving two cars.
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Mount Cotton Road resident Kay McLachlan said she feared for the safety of her family as roadworks had made it more difficult to turn into their driveway.
In response to the crashes, Bulletin readers called for the road to be widened.
“If each direction were two lanes, it would enable the slower vehicles – like the trucks hauling heavy loads – to be able to move into the slow lane for other motorists to go around them at the designated speed, hence keeping the flow of traffic moving,” Tracey Wessling wrote.
Elissa Knox said truck drivers were not the problem.
“The amount of drivers behaving badly in this road just astonishes me,” she said.
“People speed, tail-gate and don’t indicate so much it’s ridiculous.”
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Mr Aynsley said dropping the speed limit from 80km/h or increasing the space between lanes would give motorists more response time.
Working as a firefighter west of Toowoomba, Mr Aynsley said he had attended many head-on collisions where vehicles were travelling at 80km/h or more.
High speed head-on collisions often ended in fatalities or serious injuries.
“Our incident was not a result of speed. It was inattention but if you are in a head-on collision at 60km/h you have more of a chance of surviving,” he said.
Mr Aynsley said other ideas were increasing the width between lanes as done elsewhere on the road, or installing concrete bollards between lanes.
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