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Speed limit sought for ‘danger’ road
Road rage: Residents of Stumpy Gully Rd, Tuerong, are annoyed that their pleas to lower speed limits are being ignored. From left, Jo Fowler, Penny Carleton-Carlos, Kate Roper, Susan Todd, and Peter and Janet Moran. Picture: Gary Sissons
RESIDENTS living on Stumpy Gully Rd dread the sound of a skidding cars followed by the crump of metal again timber. If they do not hear the initial noise, they are brought running out of their houses by the sirens or flashing lights of emergency vehicles. The latest crash, on Saturday night, was outside the property of Jo Fowler who says efforts to have speed limits lowered have fallen on deaf ears. Ms Fowler believes the speed limit on Stumpy Gully Rd should be 70km/h rather than the existing 100km/h. “It’s a very narrow road all the way [from Moorooduc to Balnarring] and people lose control when they hit the wet edging,� she said. Acting Sergeant Melanie Lean of Hastings police said a woman in her mid-20s was “very lucky� when her car left Stumpy Gully Rd and hit a tree as she was going home from work in Moorooduc late Saturday night. “It wasn’t a thick-stumped tree but it was fairly tall and it came down on top of her car, so she’s been very lucky. She was taken to hospital overnight but was released the next day and appears to be fine, which is great news.� Acting Sergeant Lean described the gravel surface “a terrible, terrible road, as anyone using it would know, especially in the wet�. “At night that road is very dark too; there’s no lighting, so drivers really need to adjust their speed to suit the conditions.� Alison Leighton, Mornington Peninsula Shire’s infrastructure strategy manager, said the circumstances of the latest crash were being reviewed “and this analysis will include consideration of speed, road condition and overall safety�.
Outrage over ‘fake’ photo By Keith Platt AMBULANCE paramedic Terry-Ann Davies is outraged that she has been caught up in claims the ambulance union faked photos to influence its fight for better pay and conditions. Based at Rosebud, Ms Davies featured prominently in a photo Health Minister David Davies said showed trollies had been pushed together at
Frankston Hospital to exaggerate overcrowding. Ms Davies has written to the Premier Denis Napthine seeking an apology. Mr Davis’s claims were countered by critics saying the patients were waiting for care irrespective of whether they were spread out or brought in close together for a photo. Ms Davies said she was looking after a patient taken to Frankston in her am-
bulance (MICA) and was unaware that photos had been taken. “I got swept up in the issue. There definitely were lots of stretchers there,� she said. People had recognised her in the photo published by Herald Sun and CCTV footage from the hospital. “It was busy, there were even more stretchers out of shot and that’s not counting people in the [emergency de-
partment’s] waiting room.� Ms Davies said the hospital would have electronic records of the number of patients waiting for attention or on beds. “I am glad people are seeing through it [the faked photos claim],� she said. “We stay with our patients until they get a bed. “I was there three hours that night and was always close to my patient.�
Ms Davies said the way the photo was used against the union by the state government “could make patients in the Frankston area lose faith in paramedics�. “The minister seems happy to decimate that trust. The people who photographed the crowded trollies had a noble cause; the minister’s reasons [for releasing it] seem less than noble.� Continued Page 6
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