Report on Beenleigh bottleneck after motorcyclist dies

Transport officials are set to compile a report on a crash that killed a 29-year-old motorcyclist on the weekend at an intersection that is notorious for being unsafe.

State transport officials will compile a report on a crash which killed a 29-year-old motorcyclist on the weekend at a Beenleigh intersection notorious for being unsafe and causing gridlock.

Macalister MP Melissa McMahon called for the information two days after Beenleigh man Robert Buchbach died at the intersection of Tallagandra Rd and Beaudesert-Beenleigh Rd.

Witnesses said drivers from other vehicles raced to help Mr Buchbach and give CPR after the incident which occurred around 2pm on Saturday.

Beenleigh man Robert Buchbach died at the Tallagandra Rd intersection but his death may not be in vain after a local MP called for a briefing on the incident.

“I have requested a briefing as to the cause of the weekend’s fatal crash to find out if road design has contributed to this and other previous incidents,” Mrs McMahon said.

“We are pushing to have these issues addressed in the upcoming scheduled Beaudesert-Beenleigh Rd upgrade.”

Friends yesterday paid respects to Mr Buchbach, a father who died at the intersection where residents had last week stepped up a campaign against building a connecting road through a known koala reserve.

Mrs McMahon started asking for upgrades to Beaudesert-Beenleigh Rd two years ago and in June got $5 million for the stretch from the five-way roundabout at Main, James, Lehman, Milne Rd and Beaudesert-Rd to Tallagandra Rd.

Transport Minister Mark Bailey with Macalister MP Melissa McMahon in September, when they checked out traffic on the busy Beaudesert-Beenleigh Rd near where a man died on the weekend.

That funding matched $5 million from the federal government for the duplication of the road between Tallagandra Rd and Milne St.

Bahrs Scrub Resident Jodie Batten, who has been calling on Logan City Council to review ways to improve traffic flow in the area, said the crash on the weekend was a tragedy and sent her deepest condolences to Mr Buchbach’s family.

Mrs Batten said she did not want a road built linking Tallagandra Rd through to Wuruga Reserve, where a local koala family lived.

Logan City Council has looked at possibilities of putting a road through the Wuruga Reserve

“There is an ongoing investigation into the cause of the accident,” Mrs Batten said.

“The community group will continue working with all levels of government including Melissa McMahon in regards to the access to Wuraga Rd.

“An overpass is an option – however no-one in the community group is an engineer who understands the dynamics of how that works.

“Will it be an overpass or an intersection, that is up to the road engineers but a safe and good connection at the intersection is the preference.”

Logan City Council said the intersection at Tallagandra Rd and Beenleigh-Beaudesert Road, where the fatal motorcycle accident occurred, was controlled by the state government’s Transport and Main Roads Department.