The Great Ocean Road quite often sees Rider's come to grief, and such was the experience of one rider who brought his accident to the attention of the MRAA recently.
This set the wheels in motion, whereby the MRAA immediately raised this with its contacts at Vic Roads.
From Vic Roads came the following response:
Further to our discussion last week, please find below photographs taken by VicRoads Surveillance Manager Gary McCormack on Thursday last week.
The photos clearly show that this is a slow moving landslip site, that has been regulated in the past. It would seem that with the recent rains on the Great Ocean Road the pavement has slumped causing the ridge.
As we discussed the Great Ocean Road is inspected weekly, and the ridge in the pavement was not evident in the inspection that occurred in the week prior to the accident on 23 September 2007.
We attempted to regulate the pavement last Friday but it was too wet, all we could do was make the site safe with some premix.
I am advised that the regulation work is being carried out this morning (1 Oct 2007).
VicRoads has also been in contact with Mr Harrower and a "Notice of Incident" form has been sent to him.
If you have any questions, or more to the point if you have any other locations in south western Victoria that you are aware of that present a hazard to motorcyclists please do not hesitate to contact me.
Regards
Bryan Sherritt
Manager Program Delivery
South Western Region
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