The Suttor Street and Bradwardine Road roundabout has been labelled the worst intersection in the city "bar none" by Councillor Warren Aubin, who said he will be calling on council to make the intersection safer.
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In the past fortnight there have been two serious crashes, the last on Tuesday morning when two cars collided, the week before a pizza delivery rider was knocked from his motorbike.
"It's become the worst intersection for crashes in Bathurst; people just won't slow down," Cr Aubin said.
"I use it 10 times day, even more. The major thing is as you come down Bradwardine Road, if there's a vehicle on the roundabout it's usually right behind the pillar of your windscreen, right in the blind spot.
"Most people don't actually look around, so if you keep going through ... whack."
Cr Aubin said he was calling on council to install traffic calming devices at the roundabout, and also change the deflection angle as the driver enters the roundabout.
"Basically, at the moment as you approach the roundabout, drivers seem to think they don't need to slow down. It's the same coming along Suttor Street."
He said the traffic island on the rugby club side approach needs to be placed further right, which he said would force drivers to slow down.
Another suggestion is placing raised bumps on the road, again with the aim of slowing traffic.
"There was a crash here this week, a week earlier a pizza delivery bike got knocked over. Another time a car landed on its roof.
"There's crashes here all the bloody time; all you need to do is stand here and look at the speed of the cars as they come along too fast."
Cr Aubin said his suggestions are cost effective, and an easy way to reduce crashes.
"It just needs something doing to slow drivers down," he said.
Lachlan Sullivan, former newspaper columnist and owner of Westpoint News and Gifts, said he voiced concerns about the intersection a number of times.
"I wrote about 50 [Windradyne Whisperer] columns about it.
"I raised the issue two years ago, and council did nothing.
"I reckon there's gotta be two accidents a week there.
"The problem is the line of sight. People can see two or three hundred metres ahead; they see a car and think I can beat them."