Witness to two accidents

I’M WRITING in response to your article of 5 May, about Maroondah Highway between Healesville and Narbethong.
We moved to Buxton one year ago and, during that time, I have witnessed two accidents.
One was about the same place late last year where the same thing happened, a car rolled down.
The second accident was on the Spur.
I was going down to Lilydale, driving around a bend before Dom Dom picnic ground, when a motorbike rider negotiating a bend lost control and came off.
It was his lucky day, because it was a weekday and not much traffic.
Two others in a car and myself stopped to help.
He didn’t want us to call anyone.
We gathered all his belongings, which had spilled over the road.
He wasn’t physically hurt, just badly shaken.
Had that happened over the weekend, he would have not been so lucky, or us, because the cars travel at excessive speed and too close to each other.
Also, many people speed and take unnecessary risks, overtaking cars and coming around the bend on the wrong side of the road.
Trucks are quite bad as well.
Dropping the speed, or putting up more barriers, is not going to work because no-one worries about that now.
Police can’t patrol that area 24/7.
The best option is putting permanent speed cameras all along that stretch of road.
Hitting people in the back pocket will slow them down.
Other than that, install speed humps every so many metres, kilometres or whatever, or any sort of device that would slow down the drivers.
Also, ban any bicycles on that road as they cause a lot of problems as well.
Julie Carter,
Buxton.