Thread: Lucky to survive

Originally Posted by DeeJay

I just stumbled upon this article- most likely caused by incorrect towball download.


Potholed highway causing near-death caravanning crash reignites debate over country Victoria's roads

Easier to blame someone else though. If a pothole was enough to de-stabilise the train how would they have reacted to a blown tyre?

This should be in the D2 section,not D1.

we have by far the worst roads here in Vic(for a big economy state!).

No road demonstrates this so clearly as does the Monaro hwy from Cann River to Bombala.

Cann River to NSW border is about 50klm of total garbage .. to call this section a highway is joke.
Then you immediately notice that you've entered another world .. maybe Switzerland, and their 'billiard table like' roads .. but you're in NSW.
An absolute dreamland after the grueling 45mins to get to the border.

Originally Posted by BradC

Easier to blame someone else though. If a pothole was enough to de-stabilise the train how would they have reacted to a blown tyre?

Knew someone would bring this up. I've seen a B-Double fail due to road conditions, but it's always easier to blame the driver. Suits the insurers, and the road authorities like the easy way out.

Roads should be predictable in a First World state. We expect it. Any comparison with a blown tyre and what these folk experienced is spurious at best.

Originally Posted by Tins

Knew someone would bring this up. I've seen a B-Double fail due to road conditions, but it's always easier to blame the driver. Suits the insurers, and the road authorities like the easy way out.

Roads should be predictable in a First World state. We expect it. Any comparison with a blown tyre and what these folk experienced is spurious at best.

I will retreat suitably chastised.

Originally Posted by AK83

we have by far the worst roads here in Vic(for a big economy state!).

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You obviously don't travel round here! Western NSW has thousands of kilometres of roads closed whenever there is significant rain, and not just unsealed roads either. For example, the Barrier Highway is commonly one of these. And then there are the potholes after rain on the sealed roads!

Victoria has far less kilometres of road per head of population than any other state except perhaps for Tasmania, so this is as expected. But of course, this does not mean that specific roads cannot be very bad in Victoria.

Originally Posted by AK83

we have by far the worst roads here in Vic(for a big economy state!).

I'm with JD - NSW rural roads are far worse than Victorian roads - even in rural towns the state of the roads is diabolical in a lot of places. Vic has very good roads compared to them IMO or else I'm just unlucky and anywhere I drive in NSW just happens to be the bad roads, but it seems if you get off A & B roads up there, it's an absolute crap show.

They are no better here either.

We travel the Moonie hwy,from Dalby to St George regularly and in many places it’s an absolute shocker.

Sure they have done repairs recently but in some places it’s still pretty bad.

The good thing about the road is they have cleared the scrub away,about 10M each side which makes driving,particularly at night safer.

Other places all over Qld,the roads are shocking,which no doubt increases road accidents.