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2 May, 2026
Residents express concerns over safety of Yarrawa Road following latest accident
Residents continue to express concerns over the safety of Yarrawa Road following another accident yesterday.
Residents continue to express concerns over the safety of Yarrawa Road following another accident yesterday.
Emergency services rushed to the scene of the single vehicle accident near Moss Vale at approximately 10.30am.
Officers attached to The Hume Police District attended and found a Toyota SUV had left the road and crashed into a tree.
The driver - a man in his 50s - was treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics before being taken to hospital for mandatory testing.
The Toll helicopter attended but The Southern Wire has been advised that the man was transported to hospital by road.
Inquiries into the circumstances of the crash are ongoing.
Local residents have told The Southern Wire that there have a number of serious accidents along the road in recent years – one of them of a fatality.
The Southern Wire has been told the accident victim was reported a missing person before his body was eventually found two weeks later.
Another accident was a head-on collision with two people reportedly airlifted to hospital.
One resident said there had been no improvements to Yarrawa Road over the past 13 years – despite it being a major thoroughfare.
He said the road was too narrow and the road verge contained ‘serious’ dips and hollows.
The road itself, he said, was badly potholed and needed to be widened and resurfaced.
The resident said Yarrawa Road was more important than Kirkham Road in Bowral or Argyle Street in Moss Vale – where works are currently taking place.
“There are no lives lost in the middle of Moss Vale,” he told The Southern Wire.
He also questioned why so much money was being spent on roadworks at Bong Bong common when other roads such as Yarrawa Road were being ignored.
He said he had been forced to reduce his own speed on Yarrawa Road on Thursday night to 30km/h because of heavy fog and the condition of the road.
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