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January 9th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Second tragedy … two more people died when their car hit a tree south of Kew on the Pacific Highway. Photo: Port News/Peter Gleeson
THE speed camera near the scene of a road tragedy on Sunday will be reinstated on advice given to the Roads Minister before the accident occurred.
Duncan Gay was urged by Roads and Maritime Services within the past month to reinstate the camera on a notorious stretch of the Pacific Highway near where a truck crashed into a house killing an 11-year-old boy.
The mayor of Bellingen said he also had lobbied to have the camera at Urunga switched back on but residents near the crash site say they will feel safe only once a by-pass is finally built around their mid-north coast town.
Max MacGregor, 11, from Penrith South, was killed early on Sunday when a truck smashed through his family’s holiday house. Yesterday police said they believed the truck was forced off the road while trying to avoid a ute on the wrong side of the road.
The driver of the ute, a father of two, David Levett, 38, from Nambucca Heads, was also killed.
Yesterday Mr Gay said he would speed up advice to his department to put the camera near the site on warning mode, which meant speeding motorists would get a letter, not a fine.
He would also install flashing speed limit signs, add warning signs, and investigate a point-to-point speed camera system.
Mr Gay commissioned the draft advice from his department after he ordered the de-activation of 38 speed cameras in July, in response to a critical report by the Auditor-General.
It is not known whether speed was a factor in the tragedy but the government has been criticised for switching off the cameras before it had received advice about other safety measures.
Asked if turning the camera back on was an acknowledgement that it should not have been switched off, Mr Gay said: ”It is an acknowledgement that we need to look at everything possible whilst we are waiting for the bypass and whilst we are evaluating the road safety issues.”
The mayor of Bellingen, Mark Troy, said the camera should not have been deactivated without other deterrents in place. He said the council had written to Mr Gay in October asking for it to be reactivated.
Allan Phillips, who lives next to the flat where Max was killed and is friends with the boy’s parents, Peter and Angela, said the solution was to build a bypass. ”We have got a major highway going through a growing community. We have to move the highway.”
Two other people died on the highway on Monday when their car hit a tree near Kew.
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