PHOTO: Tanya O’Donoghue rescues wildlife from the sides of central west roads. PHOTO: Tanya O’Donoghue.
NRMA released their annual Wildlife Road Safety Report on 30 November 2022 announcing that over 10 million animals die on Australian roads each year.
Popular highways across the central west topped the list in wildlife collision statistics.
Dubbo’s Golden Highway connecting to Dunedoo headed the Animal Collision Data List reaching a total of 689 insurance claims from 2017-2022 and the Mitchell Highway connecting to Narromine has been identified as one of Dubbo’s worst black spots for animal collisions.
The NRMA Wildlife Road Safety Report states that kangaroo and wallabies are the most likely to be impacted in a casualty crash, with kangaroos accounting for 92.5 per cent of the top five most commonly hit animals on the road…