Woman avoids serious injury after Byron hinterland car rollover

A Northern Rivers motorist was lucky to escape relatively unscathed after rolling her car during wet weather. Four ambulances were dispatched to the rural location.

A woman has avoided major injury after her car rolled in the Byron Shire.

Paramedics were called to the scene where a car had rolled in wet conditions on Brushbox Drive in Mullumbimby Creek about 9.50am on Wednesday.

Four ambulance crews were dispatched to the rural location just outside of the Mullumbimby township.

Upon arrival, paramedics located the driver of the vehicle.

The woman had managed to get herself out of the overturned car and was found resting in the passenger side of another vehicle that had stopped to render assistance.

The incident came shortly after another vehicle left the road and rolled in another part of the Byron Shire.

Paramedics assessed and treated a patient at the scene for cuts and bruises before transporting her to Byron Central Hospital in a stable condition.

Two-thirds of fatalities on NSW roads occur on country roads, according to a road safety report from Transport for NSW.

Road Users Byron LGA

Casualties	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Killed		1	2	5	1
Seriously Injured	27	34	19	17	13
Moderately Injured	73	58	69	58	44
Minor/other	26	41	29	32	22
Crashes
Fatal		1	2	4	1
Serious Injury	27	33	16	16	12
Moderate Injury	61	51	46	50	41
Minor/other	19	24	25	22	18

The report cites environmental aspects like poorer road conditions and design, higher speed limits, increased roadside hazards and limited public transport as contributing factors of risk and severity of having a crash on a regional road.

Many roads within the Northern Rivers are narrow with unsealed shoulders making it easy to lose control of your vehicle and run off the road.

Transport for NSW statistics show crashes in the Byron Shire spiked in 2017 then gradually declined in recent years.