TOP Shop proprietors, Vickie and Jerry Flier, have no idea how someone has not been killed while driving on the road, outside their store.


In the short time they have owned the store, their security cameras have captured dozens – weekly and sometimes daily – of instances, where vehicles have treated the section of Mount Gambier Road outside their premises, like a freeway.


“The worst one, probably, was this hot rod … it travelled up the (inbound lane) on the wrong side of the road and there were a few (large trucks) parked there, as they always do, on the side of the road,” Ms Flier said.


“If anything went wrong, if he had to get back in the other lane or even try to get off the road for whatever reason, he had absolutely nowhere to go.”


She said the most concerning incidents occurred when in-bound traffic travelled in both lanes and met with vehicles exiting out of the residential Carmichael Street.


“We have seen that many near-misses where vehicles have gone to turn left out of Carmichael Street and been met, head-on, by a car coming into town,” she said.


“(A driver) got tooted at, because he was in the left hand lane, the correct lane, going into town … the driver in the right lane honked the horn at him because he would not let him back in.”


Ms Flier said most concerning and perplexing about the situation, was the presence of a school and hospital, both within 50 metres either side of the problem stretch of road and the fact they road was and had for a very long time been a 60-kilometre-per-hour zone.


“There’s an unbroken line there, marking off the parking area from the road and it’s within a town boundary … the 60 zone starts a long way back from here … how do you need to overtake someone in a 60 zone?” she said.


“And this cannot be a new thing, this must have been going on for a while, it’s just now we’re catching it on camera.”


She said she had spoken to Lowan MP, Emma Kealy, about the matter, who was going to address the situation with the roads and road safety minister.


Local police said they were also aware of the matter, with Acting Sergeant Tim McMahon advising members were regularly patrolling the strip and would be doing stationary surveillance of the area.