Wainohu, who has lived on Dundee Drive since she was a teenager, estimated the damage to her property alone could cost about $5000 to fix. <\/p>\n
Fibre-optic cables along her fence line were also severed and later repaired by Chorus.<\/p>\n
Addie Wainohu stands outside her Dundee Drive property, where a crash tore out a tree, business sign, garden beds, fibre-optic cables and part of the fence line. The letterbox has since been replaced. Photo \/ Rafaella Melo<\/p>\n
Police said they were called about the crash at 12.20am on August 15. <\/p>\n
\u201cNo injuries were reported and there was some damage to property,\u201d a spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice are making inquiries.\u201d<\/p>\n
That crash was not the first Wainohu had experienced.<\/p>\n
About 10 years ago, another vehicle left the road in what Wainohu described as an almost identical crash and damaged her property.<\/p>\n
She said Hastings District Council (HDC) assessed the road after that crash but the only change she saw was faded white road markings being repainted.<\/p>\n
Wainohu said she was told at the time the street would be put on a waiting list for further work.<\/p>\n
Several other crashes and near-misses over the years, she said, had never been formally reported.<\/p>\n
Wainohu said a nearby property fence was hit three times, while a visitor\u2019s parked vehicle outside another neighbouring house had recently been struck from behind.<\/p>\n
Wainohu said she believed the shape of Dundee Drive was part of the problem.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s probably one of the most unusual shapes you can have in a road. It\u2019s shaped like a horseshoe,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you\u2019re coming around the bend, you don\u2019t know you\u2019re going to be turning around a bend. There\u2019s nothing to tell you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although the speed limit is 50km\/h, she said even drivers travelling within the limit could underestimate the turn if they were unfamiliar with the road.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou think you can see a road running straight through, but when you get down, coming further, you realise there\u2019s no road, and so that\u2019s why they end up hitting the neighbour straight on his fence line.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said residents could often hear vehicles accelerating before reaching the bend.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I hear the vehicles speeding, my heart just goes, \u2018Oh my God, it\u2019s going to happen again\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Addie Wainohu points to the sharp bend on Dundee Drive, which she says drivers unfamiliar with the road can underestimate. Photo \/ Rafaella Melo<\/p>\n
Wainohu this week formally asked the council for a new road safety assessment and consideration of warning signs, advisory speed signs, traffic-calming measures and barriers.<\/p>\n
\u201cRealistically, all they need to do is something with that funny road that\u2019s down there, or put arrow signs around the bend so you even know that there\u2019s a bend.\u201d<\/p>\n
After watching crashes and near-misses for years, Wainohu said she no longer wanted to wait.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomebody is going to be killed. It\u2019s going to happen,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
An HDC spokesperson said Wainohu\u2019s request had been referred for further investigation.<\/p>\n
Council records showed nine reported crashes on Dundee Dr between 2016 and 2025, including two injury crashes.<\/p>\n
The council said the only other police-attended crash recorded near Wainohu\u2019s property was in June 2014. <\/p>\n
It had no record confirming whether a road safety assessment was carried out after that crash, although a review of the following five years did not identify concerns requiring an assessment, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
The site did not meet the criteria for traffic-calming measures.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the basis of the reported crash history over the last five years, with the crashes being dispersed along Dundee Drive, the criteria for traffic calming is not able to be met in terms of both the crash history and the surveyed speeds at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Residents were encouraged to report incidents and near-misses to help the council identify patterns and determine whether further investigation or intervention was needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wainohu, who has lived on Dundee Drive since she was a teenager, estimated the damage to her property…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[432,74,115,3944,29422,9850,2082,1333,22220,185,3375,111,43,139,69,1356,10710,54111,1529,210,61],"class_list":["post-577237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-action","tag-after","tag-calls","tag-car","tag-crashes","tag-flaxmere","tag-for","tag-get","tag-going","tag-is","tag-killed","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-properties","tag-resident","tag-somebody","tag-three","tag-through","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}