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Man dies in collision on Great Western Highway at Mt Lambie
Jul 6, 2018LITHGOW, Central West, NSW, Australia – A man has been Killed in a road crash on the Great Western Highway at Mt Lambie, 14 kilometres west of Lithgow, just two days after NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced plans to upgrade that stretch of highway to make it safer.
The fatality on Friday, which occurred around 5:20am was as the result of a head-on collision between a utility and a truck.
As a result of the crash, the utility caught fire. The driver of the utility was pronounced dead at the scene.
The truck driver was injured and he was treated by NSW Ambulance Paramedics before being taken to hospital.
Diversions were in place near the crash site which disrupted traffic in both directions.
On Wednesday on a visit to Lithgow, Premier Gladys Berejiklian inspected a number of roads and announced $877,000 would be spent on the Great Western Highway at Mt Lambie, between 2.6km and 3.1km west of Pikes Lane.
The works will include the erection of barriers on the roadside, the installation of curve alignment markers, profile audio-tactile edge line, and wire rope barriers..
The work is part of the state government’s Safer Roads Program, which has been established to confront New South Wales’ crippling road toll. “Last year, 272 people killed on NSW roads were in the country, so this will go a long way to reduce the number of fatalities on regional roads,” the local member for Bathurst Paul Toole, who was accompanying the premier, told local media on Wednesday.
