Local resident Wayne Lennon said the road was too dangerous to be open to anyone but Dunns Road residents.

“It’s not a road, it’s a fire trail and that’s all it should be.

“There’s simply no need for it to be open,” he said.

It comes after a woman was hospitalised after ploughing into a tree beside the road on New Year's Day.

Mr Lennon’s comments come six months after Riverina MP Michael McCormack and Wagga council general manager Alan Eldridge committed to find a combined $5 million to pave the notorious road.

The deadly stretch is typically used by locals to travel between Uranquinty and Lake Village or Tolland, but Mr Lennon said safer alternatives were available.

“If want to go to Uranquinty, I always use Red Hill Road,” he said. 

“That route isn’t much further than taking Dunns Road.”

Mr Lennon said the nature of the road had attracted “outrageous” driving behaviour.

“It's the main shortcut around Wagga and people use it to avoid speeding detection and breathalysers.

“People will be cruising along at 120 kilometres per hour in an 80 zone, even when cars are coming towards them.

“People just won’t slow down and that's the major problem.

“Once people get over the dirt and come over that last hill, you have a long downhill stretch towards the Holbrook Road intersection and people just put their foot down.”

Gary Jennings, who owns a business near the troublesome road, was lucky to escape major injuries when he was hit by an oncoming car at the intersection of Dunns Road and Holbrook Road a year ago.

Two similar accidents occurred on the stretch within the same four-week period.

“There just seems to be blind spots everywhere,” Mr Jennings said.

“There needs to be a stop sign put in at the intersection at the very least. Someone will be killed, it’s only a matter of time.”

Mr Jennings said the entire length of Dunns Road, which comprises an ominous mix of dirt and bitumen, was extremely unsafe and, despite the funding being secured, called for it to be sealed sooner rather than later.

“If you're driving along there, you have blokes flying along there and the amount of stones that get thrown up is ridiculous,” he said.

“They spend all that money grading the dirt sections of road, and as soon as the rain comes it’s back to normal.”

Gavin King, who has owned a 100-acre property on the town side of Dunns Road for 17 years, said the controversial road had been putting people’s lives in danger for years.

“The grading they do on the unsealed sections is good for a short time, but with the amount of traffic the road gets it just degrades so quickly,” he said.

“It simply needs a major reconstruction.”

Mr King said accidents were often caused by people with little experience in driving on unsealed roads.