Council will write to VicRoads about upgrading an intersection at Horsham Lubeck Road and Murtoa Glenorchy Road, Lubeck.

It comes after a 56-year-old Meredith woman died in a two-car crash at the intersection on Thursday, last week.

Cr Kylie Zanker said it was council’s moral purpose to advocate for improvements where there were blackspots.

“If there are fatalities, it is our ethical and moral compass that tells us to do something about it,” she said.

“Whenever we have community consultations out at Lubeck, an upgrade to this intersection is something the community has pushed for.

“If we have a voice and can advocate for something that might save other people having to go through trauma, then we need to do it.”

Lubeck residents demanded the intersection be upgraded six years ago after three women were injured in a head-on collision.

Mayor Ray Kingston said the upgrade was something council had written to VicRoads about in the past, but nothing had happened yet.

“The Lubeck community has been advocating for that intersection for what seems like forever, it goes back 30 years or perhaps more,” he said.

“I don’t doubt for a second their great frustration, especially of the fire brigade volunteers that had to attend an accident at a place where there has already been a massive concern.

“This is a scenario where there have been many years of fatalities and near misses – we need to do something.”

Chief executive Ray Campling said council had also invited VicRoads representatives to attend a community meeting at Lubeck next month.

Infrastructure and planning director James Magee said VicRoads was also offering new funding for small project.

He created a list of priority projects that could be put forward for funding.

The Lubeck intersection was on the list, along with a call for guardrails at Two Mile Bridge on the Henty Highway, near Hopetoun, where there was a fatality in April.

“We’ve had two fatalities in four months, which is fairly unusual for our shire,” Mr Magee said.