Roads
Taxi veteran calls for patience on roads
VETERAN Colac taxi driver Michael Harrison says there’s one message he wants drivers to heed on the roads this summer: patience.
Intersection claims more victims
A DRIVER has failed to give way at a notorious Colac intersection, resulting in two people going to hospital.
Another incident at scene of horror crash
A HAZARDOUS Barongarook intersection has come under the spotlight again after authorities failed to fix a damaged “give way” sign for six days.
Danger roads concern cyclists
BICYCLE safety campaigners have stepped up a push to improve the Colac district’s most dangerous roads.
Mum thought baby had died
COLAC district mum Rachel Amos-Ritchie feared her nine-month-old baby girl, blue and unconscious, had died in a car crash at Barongarook.
Council looks at entrance options
COLAC Otway Shire Council is exploring options to avoid a bottleneck at Colac’s eastern entrance when workers finish a Princes Highway duplication.
Dangerous roads will be safer
A NOTORIOUS intersection in Colac and a dangerous stretch of road near Deans Marsh will get upgrades worth nearly $3.5 million.
Teenager airlifted to hospital
PARAMEDICS airlifted a Simpson teenager to a Melbourne hospital after a single-vehicle car crash.