Oran Park locals push for safer roads following second crash in a week

A Macarthur council insists roads are safe in a suburb built on an old racetrack despite two serious crashes in just over a week.

A Macarthur council insists roads are safe in a brand-new suburb which was built on a race track as residents call for more safety measures after there were two car accidents within one week.

Emergency services including fire crews and paramedics rushed to the intersection of Skafe St and Smith St at Oran Park on Sunday evening after a red ute collided with a blue hatchback.

Emergency services rushed to the intersection of Skafe St and Smith St at Oran Park on Sunday evening after a red ute collided with a blue hatchback.

There were no major injuries but a woman travelling in the hatchback had to be cut out of the car and was treated at the scene for a broken arm.

Oran Park residents and parents are growing more concerned especially having so many children in the street on Sunday for Halloween.

“This area is a mess for people speeding, usually I’m against speed humps because I spend thousands on cars but tonight with so many kids around its worrying,” Mitchell Anders said.

“It’s becoming a total joke.”

Crowds gathered at Oran Park following the crash on Sunday evening.

Other residents said the accidents were “just what happens when you build over a race track”.

The crash comes after a car smashed into the home of a family of 10 in the middle of the day just one week earlier.

Matt Olsen was at work when he got the call a Holden Commodore ute had veered off Holden Drive and smashed into the family’s Oran Park home about 3pm Sunday where his partner and eight children were spending the day.

Mr Olsen and other residents are calling for streets in the suburb to be made safer with speed bumps or traffic control.

“My daughter called and told me someone drove through the front of the house and I said to her that’s a really s**t joke,” he told the Macarthur Chronicle.

A Holden ute smashed into a house on Holden Drive at Oran Park on Sunday.

Mr Olsen said his partner and kids were at home when they heard a loud bang from the front of the house.

“A lot of people still think Oran Park is a racetrack and years ago, yes it was,” he said.

“But there’s been five incidents like this in three years … it’s a residential area.”

Mr Olsen said his 14-year-old daughter was in her bedroom when the car hit the supporting pillar just outside the front door and felt ‘the entire room shake’.

If the car had been just 20cm either side of the pillar, Mr Olsen says there could have been serious injuries.

“Yeah there’s some damage to the property but it could have been so much worse,” he said.

The entire front pillar was snapped off by the car.

The car smashed into the house in the middle of the day.

“You don’t wipe out a letter box, a garbage bin and take out a supporting pillar like that if you’re driving properly.”

Mr Olsen is just one resident calling for council to fix the roads and ‘control the speed’ in the booming suburb.

“You see people hooning up and down Holden Drive,” he said.

NSW Police confirmed officers were investigating the incident after it left “major structural damage” to the home.

“A white Holden Commodore ute entered a roundabout on Holden Drive and Evans Street at Oran Park, as the ute exited the roundabout east along Holden Drive, it struck a postal box, rubbish bin and a front support balcony beam of a home,” a police statement said.

“The 18-year-old male driver of the Commodore was uninjured; however, major structural damage was caused to the home.”

Emergency services outside the home on Sunday.

Hundreds of other residents are in support of safer roads, with Casey Parish saying she wants Camden Council to install speed humps in the area.

“So many of us have young kids that live on this stretch and many have children that walk to and from school, I would never like to see someone’s children hurt,” she said.

Another woman also said she was terrified for children in the area.

“Every house on my street has young children who often play out the front, the amount of people who go speeding down the street with no care in the world makes me feel sick,” Shanae Lea said.

Following both accidents, a spokesman from Camden Council said the suburb had a number of “ traffic devices comprising of roundabouts, traffic signals and kerb extensions” which “help manage and control vehicle movements”.

“Council works closely with Camden Police Area Command to help identify locations for their investigation and enforcement,” the spokesman said.

“Council also has a variable message trailer, periodically placed at different locations including Oran Park to advise drivers of their speed and to slow down if needed.”