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January 2nd, 2012 
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Residents say a stretch of NSW highway where two teenage hitch-hikers were killed is notoriously dangerous and should have been fixed years ago.
The victims – a 19-year-old Port Macquarie man and a 16-year-old Wauchope boy – were hitching along the Oxley Highway at Sancrox yesterday when a white eastbound Nissan Patrol “drifted over the fog line at the side of the eastbound lane” and hit them, Inspector John Sullivan said.
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The fatal crash site on the Oxley Highway. Photo: Port Macquarie News/Nigel McNeil
He said there had been a queue of traffic on the eastbound lane when the accident happened. A witness phoned triple-0 at 12.35pm.
The driver of the Nissan, a 37-year-old man, was given a roadside breath test. He was taken to Port Macquarie police station and passed a further breath analysis.
He was questioned but no charges have been laid while investigations continue.
The speed limit on that stretch of the highway is 90km/h, but a road sign advises a maximum speed of 75km/h around the bends.
Sancrox resident Donna McHugh, whose home in Rawdon Island Road is a few minutes’ walk from the accident site, said she had made a submission to the Roads and Maritime Services (formerly the RTA) regarding that stretch of the Oxley Highway.
“It’s just too dangerous. The road is too twisty and the speed limit is way too high,” Mrs McHugh said.
“They made the road wider, but didn’t improve the intersection [of Rawdon Island Road] and parts of the bend are steeper.”
The mother-of-two has a daughter aged 24 and a son aged 21, the younger of whom has just completed his mandatory two-year green “P” plate stint as a provisional driver.
Mrs McHugh said her heart was in her mouth every time she heard a collision on the highway from their home.
“For us and our neighbours with kids of a similar age, your first thought is ‘Where are they? Was that them?'” she said.
Mrs McHugh said she was putting together a further submission to the Roads and Maritime Services yesterday, calling for the body to consider further the dangers faced on the Oxley Highway.
“We’ve been living here for 12 years and the council told us 10 years ago they would fix it, but it’s worse than ever,” she said.
Local drivers were among the worst offenders, taking unwarranted risks when they were impatient with slower motorists unfamiliar with the road, Mrs McHugh said.
She had called the police on a number of occasions to report crashes and people rolling their cars off the road, she added.
Yesterday’s deaths took the total of fatalities over the festive period in NSW from 15 to 17, more than double the tally for the same period last year.
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