FIVE people have died in five separate crashes on Cabonne roads so far this year, with speeding identified as a factor in three of incidents.
Fatigue and drugs were each identified as factors in one of the crashes.
The figures come as Transport for New South Wales continues road safety upgrades across the Shire.
Between 2016 and 2025, there were 600 recorded crashes in Cabonne, including 186 that resulted in 218 serious injuries.
There were 64 crashes recorded in Cabonne in 2025, broadly in line with the 10-year average of 60 crashes a year.
Of the 27 fatal crashes recorded between 2016 and 2025, speeding was identified as a factor in 13, with fatigue a factor in eight, and alcohol and drugs were each involved in five.
The factors are not mutually exclusive, more than one contributing factor can be recorded in a single crash.
Banjo Patterson Way recorded the highest number of fatal crashes over the past decade with five, followed by the Mitchell Highway and The Escort Way had four fatalities each, and Henry Parkes Way two.
Transport for New South Wales said there were no apparent crash clusters on the routes.
The New South Wales Government is spending almost $500 million over five years through its Towards Zero Safer Roads Program to upgrade high-risk locations across the state.
“The safety of all road users is the top priority for Transport which is why we are carrying out this important work, to help reduce the number of lives lost on our roads,” a Transport for New South Wales spokesperson said.
Closer to home, $23.1 million is being spent on safety improvements on the Mitchell Highway near Molong.
Speed reductions have also been introduced between Packham Drive and Manildra, while work to upgrade the level rail crossing on The Escort Way at Borenore is scheduled from 8 to 19 August.
Preliminary work has also begun at Angus Bridge at Larras Lee, about 11 kilometres north of Molong, ahead of future strengthening work.
The Mandagery Creek Bridge replacement, completed in July 2024, sought to create wider travel lanes, improved approaches, a higher mass limit for freight vehicles and a pedestrian footpath.
A Transport for New South Wales spokesperson said members of the public could access its Interactive Crash Statistics to view crash and casualty trends, contributing factors and mapped crash locations.
The 2025 and 2026 figures are preliminary and subject to change. Non-fatal crash data for those years is also incomplete because crash coding can lag by several months.
Centre for Road Safety data only includes crashes recorded by New South Wales Police in which at least one person was killed or injured, or at least one motor vehicle was towed away.