Rachael Byers: Mount Gambier driver towing caravan crashes into tree on Glenelg Hwy
A Mount Gambier woman is counting her blessings after she crashed into a tree just 20 kilometres from the fatal crash on Thursday night.
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A Mount Gambier woman says she considers herself lucky after she lost control of her car towing a caravan and crashed into a tree just kilometres from the fatal crash on Thursday night.
Rachael Byers was driving to Halls Gap in the Grampians on Friday along the Glenelg Hwy, just outside Glenburnie, when she crashed.
“I’m not really sure what happened (the car) just started swerving,” she said.
“Then it went bang.”
Ms Byers said she “feel(s) quite lucky” as there was a larger tree nearby.
Following the smash, a witness called the police and Ms Byers had to exit the vehicle from the passenger door because the driver’s side door was trapped against the fallen tree.
Ms Byers was not injured.
The crash was 20km from where a pedestrian was killed by a car at OB Flat near Mount Gambier.
The car hit the 37-year-old victim on Glenelg River Rd about 6pm Thursday.
The man’s death is the 35th life lost on South Australian roads compared to 47 at the same time last year.
Officer in Charge of the Limestone Coast Superintendent Campbell Hill said his death had impacted the entire community.
“Unfortunately, once again, my people have had to go and let people in the Limestone Coast community know that their loved one is not coming home,” Supt. Hill said.
“It is just another tragedy of our roads.”
Supt. Hill urged drivers to “drive to arrive” and drive to the conditions.
“Two thirds of the people that die on regional roads are regional people,” Supt. Hill said.
“People think it just won’t happen to them.
“The statistics tell us that on regional roads there is a high chance that it’s regional people dying.”
In a separate incident another pedestrian was hit by a car at Christie Downs about 8pm Thursday.
It also follows a fatal crash at Salisbury East on Monday.
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