THE RTA faces demands to shield motorists from heavy vehicles after another truck crash turned the F3 freeway into the road to misery for a second straight day.
The accident, which landed nine people in hospital and shut Sydney’s fragile northern artery for almost two hours yesterday, has snapped the patience of motorists and road safety campaigners.
The NRMA last night called for more freight to be shifted to rail to protect drivers from the growing number of semi-trailers and their larger cousins, the B-triple.
The double truck fiasco has also raised questions about the safety of the state’s major road corridors amid evidence that NSW highways are more dangerous than those in any other state in Australia.
It was the second time this week that a heavy vehicle caused chaos on the F3, after a waste-paper truck was incinerated when it hit a roadside wall on Tuesday.
In yesterdays accident, police said a table-top truck swerved into the lane of a semi-trailer about 2.15pm, 500m from the Berowra entrance.
The subsequent collision sent the table-top ploughing into a sandstone wall before three sedans crashed into the rear of the semi-trailer.
The F3 was blocked northbound as nine people were airlifted to Gosford and North Shore Hospitals, all in a stable condition.
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