Wodonga Mum Bec Styles pleads for drivers to drive more slowly

Bec Styles was already having a "roller coaster" year after becoming the owner of small hair dressing business Tangam Tangles in the midst of COVID-19 and its challenges, but she said August was "the worst month ever".

"I was in my first car accident, in my nice brand new car and I got T-boned and my daughter was in the car," she said.

"They just weren't paying attention. It was in Thurgoona on Elizabeth Mitchell Drive."

Ms Styles' young daughter was physically unharmed, but Ms Styles hurt her shoulder.

"But being that I owned the salon I just pushed through that and kept working," she said.

Two weeks after the first accident, Ms Styles was again T-boned, this time in a hire car on the Murray Valley Highway and Kiewa Valley Highway intersection, breaking her leg in four places so she was in hospital for two weeks.

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"We were spun around twice, the car got written off," she said.

"Something needs to be done about that intersection...I go through that intersection multiple times a day and you'll have near miss nearly every week, it's just ridiculous.

"I put a complaint into VICroads about it; they did contact me back and said they do have plans to change the intersection to a roundabout, but it's the cost obviously.

"But in my eyes, I don't think any money's worth a life.

"What if my daughter was in that car that day or what if the driver was going faster? It could have been a lot worse."

Ms Styles said the incidents had left her in pain, had impacted her daughter and her ability to work.

"Slow down," she said.

"It doesn't matter what time it is, regardless of if you have an appointment or if you're picking someone up, they're still going to be there waiting.

"I just don't understand why people don't just wait."

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