Crash survivor renews calls for pothole fix

WATCH: Crash survivor renews calls for pothole fix

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00:00A two-year-old pothole and a Sunday ride turned into a near-death experience.

00:05I'm pretty confident that that was it.

00:07Riding along the Keoa Valley Highway, Jackie Miller hit this pothole, sending her flying 100 metres down the road.

00:14I could see all these cars coming and I crawled off the side of the road.

00:18And yeah, all I could think was that I wasn't getting home to my kids and I was going to die on the side of the road.

00:22Lucky to escape with relatively minor injuries, she and her partner want the state government to act.

00:28I'm not doing a job. If I don't do my job or a nurse doesn't do her job, someone dies.

00:32That's what's happening with the roads. They don't fix the roads, people die.

00:35The Victorian government this month laid out a billion-dollar promise to fix the state's road network.

00:40Many of the state's roads are slated for repair works, with more than $600 million for regional Victoria.

00:47But not here.

00:48Like, there is a huge riders' association here that ride on those roads every weekend, every week.

00:53Like, there's no excuse.

00:55In October last year, the government announced a 10-year plan, allocating $6.6 billion to road makers.

01:01But for this neglected part of the Keoa Valley Highway, the wait continues.

01:06We get these risks associated with motorbike riding, but the road under it shouldn't be a risk.