PHOTO: Aerial view of the traffic backed up from a truck crash. Image: Gilgandra Weekly.
Gilgandra Shire Council’s David Neeves has written to Gilgandra Police station pointing to concerns around the police response to a truck accident on Friday 19 January 2024.
That morning, a cattle truck travelling along the Hargraves Lane detour rolled its trailer resulting in long delays.
At the time, the Newell highway traffic was diverted via Hargraves Lane.
Then on January 17 Gilgandra had a heavy rain shower and this increased traffic on the intersection of the detour and the Oxley Highway causing a large amount of damage to the road surface including large holes which appear to have contributed to the crash…