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Lucy Fraser and her partner were the innocent victims of a car crash in Tropic Road last week caused by a combination of alcohol and excessive speed and says hoons are a problem on the road.

LUCY Fraser has grown up in the Whitsundays and spent the last nine years living on Tropic Road.

She recently made plans to move out of her family home with her partner of five years, Scott Wallace, and the young couple signed a contract for a house across the road.

Thanks to a moment of stupidity from a man who decided to get in a car after drinking alcohol however, that contract may now be in jeopardy. On Wednesday January 20, Lucy and Scott were at home, getting ready for bed when they heard what sounded like a speeding motorist approaching.

“You hear motorists speeding around our corner at least once a day at more than 100km/h so it wasn’t unusual but my heart’s in my mouth every time,” Lucy said.

And this time, with good reason. A man who was later breathalysed by police, recording a BAC of 0.126 per cent, came around the corner, crossing the road onto the nature strip out the front of the Fraser home and colliding with Scott’s parked Hyundai Excel.

The car was shifted at least 10 metres by the force of the collision and was only stopped by the base of a tree.

Both cars were written off but as the cause of the accident was an intoxicated driver, his insurance policy will not cover the replacement of the victim’s car.

This may result in Lucy and Scott having to fork out for a new one, which may force them to call the house contract off, leaving them with a debt of about $9000.

“It would be a huge setback for us and we’re the innocent victims in all this,” Lucy said.

But money is not the couple’s biggest concern. “There are 10 to 15 kids and pets living in the three or four houses that surround our corner,” Lucy said.

Lucy plans to write to the police and the council urging them to take measures to make Tropic Road safer.

However Officer in Charge of Whitsunday Police Senior Sergeant Steve O’Connell said there had so far been no complaints received about hoons on the road.

“If there’s an issue, we’ll respond to it but we’ve only had one accident reported in the last seven months, so at the moment we’re unaware of any problem with Tropic Road,” Snr Sgt O’Connell said.