Injured at work or on the road in the Temora Shire?

Road crash data for the Temora Shire, 2020 to 2024

Trucks are part of the picture. Transport for NSW crash data, 2020 to 2024, shows about one in six of the shire's casualty crashes involved a heavy vehicle, which fits a district where grain moves by road to the rail line and on to market. The Burley Griffin Way and the Goldfields Way recur most, with Hoskins Street, Victoria Street and Moroneys Lane also appearing. Most crashes were on open roads with high speed limits. About one in seven happened around dawn or dusk, when many people are driving to or from work, and more than a third were in full darkness. When the driver hurt in a crash like these was on the job, the claim can involve both workers compensation and CTP.

These are Transport for NSW’s records of crashes in which someone was killed or injured, counted by where the crash happened. They count crashes, not risk: a busy arterial records more crashes than a quiet street because it carries more traffic.

Casualties are people killed plus people recorded as seriously, moderately or minor/other injured; one crash can injure more than one person. Injury severities are as recorded in this police-reported dataset. Transport for NSW’s hospital-linked serious injury statistics are a different, higher series.

Where people were hurt most often, 2020 to 2024

Of the 66 crashes where someone was hurt from 2020 to 2024, motorcycles were involved in 7, pedestrians in 4, bicycles in 1 and heavy vehicles in 11. Of those crashes, 46 happened in speed zones of 90 km/h or more. By light and road conditions, 24 happened in darkness, 9 at dawn or dusk and 8 on wet roads.

Source: Transport for NSW, NSW Road Crash Data 2020 to 2024 (open data). Casualty crashes by LGA of crash. NSW crash data on Transport for NSW Open Data.

Injured at work in the Temora Shire

Work in the Temora Shire leans on agriculture, retail and construction. Each brings its own pattern of injuries, and each guide below covers how a claim in that industry usually runs.

Work injuries we see from these industries

• Back injury from lifting and vehicle jolt →Bale lifting, long tractor days and uneven paddock driving.
• Shoulder injury from shearing and stock handling →Shearing posture, yard work and livestock restraint.
• Neck injury from scanning and reaching →Repetitive reach, overhead stock and register posture.
• Falls from height →Scaffolding, ladders, edge and roof work.
• Industrial deafness from machinery →Years of tractor, harvester and shed machinery noise.
• Hand and wrist injuries →Power tools, impact, crush injuries and repetitive strain.

The first steps on a workers compensation claim

1. Tell your employer as soon as you can, in writing if possible, and note who saw it. The claim should be made within six months of the injury, though a later claim can still be accepted in some circumstances.
2. See a doctor and get the first Certificate of Capacity. It records the injury, the treatment plan and the work you can safely do, and our WorkCover doctors write it in the format insurers expect (see the Certificate of Capacity guide).
3. Your employer notifies its insurer within 48 hours of becoming aware of the injury. If it does not, you can claim with the insurer directly, and our team can prepare the form with you.
4. The insurer responds. It generally has to start provisional weekly payments within seven days of being notified, unless it has a reasonable excuse. For the first 13 weeks they are generally 95% of your pre-injury average weekly earnings, up to a weekly maximum; try the WorkCover payment calculator.

Sources: Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 (NSW) ss 44, 261 and 267; Workers Compensation Act 1987 (NSW) s 36 (checked September 2026).

Treatment and getting back to work

On an accepted claim the insurer pays for treatment that is reasonably necessary because of the injury, and our physios, psychologists and rehabilitation providers work from the same file as your doctor. Your employer must provide suitable work so far as reasonably practicable, and cannot dismiss you because you are unfit for work as a result of the injury within six months of first becoming unfit.

Sources: Workers Compensation Act 1987 (NSW) s 60; Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 (NSW) ss 49 and 248 (checked September 2026).

The rest of the scheme is in our workers compensation NSW guide. Only just hurt? Start with what to do when you are injured at work.

Road crashes in the Temora Shire: first steps

Two sets of steps can apply here. For any crash, call 000 if anyone is hurt, report it to police if they didn't attend and keep the event number, and note the other car's or truck's rego and the driver's details. When the crash happened mid-shift, carting grain or heading out to a property near Bectric, let your employer know promptly. Then have a doctor examine your injuries and put them on record. On the road side, the at-fault vehicle's CTP insurer handles the claim. Our doctors see people across the shire by telehealth.

Report it, and get the police event number

If police did not attend, report the crash to police as soon as you can. Where anyone is injured, the Road Rules require a driver involved to report it as soon as possible and, except in exceptional circumstances, within 24 hours. If police attended, that is the report. The CTP insurer needs the crash to have been reported to police within 28 days so it can verify your claim, and it will ask for the police event number. You can report through the Police Assistance Line on 131 444 or at a police station.

Sources: NSW Road Rules 2014 r 287; SIRA, guide for people injured in a motor vehicle accident (checked September 2026).

Work out which CTP insurer handles the claim

The claim goes to the CTP insurer of the at-fault vehicle where it has been identified, or your own vehicle’s insurer if you were the at-fault driver. NSW has six licensed CTP insurers: AAMI, Allianz, GIO, NRMA, QBE and Youi. If the vehicle was never identified, or was uninsured, the Nominal Defendant handles the claim.

Sources: SIRA, list of licensed CTP insurers; SIRA, Nominal Defendant; Service NSW, apply for personal injury benefits (checked September 2026).

See a doctor, and get the Certificate of Fitness

You can be seen before any claim is made. In the first 28 days the insurer may pay for one GP consultation and up to two allied health sessions, once it knows about the crash and a claim or reference number exists. The first Certificate of Fitness must come from your treating medical practitioner; later ones can come from your physio or psychologist where the injury is within their area of practice, and each generally covers no more than 28 days.

Sources: SIRA, Motor Accident Guidelines 4.68, 4.69, 4.78 and 4.79; Motor Accident Injuries Act 2017 (NSW) s 3.15(3)(b) (checked September 2026).

The CTP time limits

Sources: SIRA, guide for people injured in a motor vehicle accident; Motor Accident Injuries Act 2017 (NSW) s 6.13 (checked September 2026).

Treatment and weekly payments are payable whoever was at fault for the first 52 weeks. After that, it depends on whether the injury is a threshold injury and whether you were mostly at fault. Our car accident injury service explains how we run a CTP file.

Source: Motor Accident Injuries Act 2017 (NSW) ss 3.11 and 3.28 (checked September 2026).

Reading for crashes like the ones in this area

• The first 72 hours after a crash →From the roadside to the first appointment, in order.
• The Certificate of Fitness →The form behind CTP weekly payments, and who signs it.
• CTP treatment approvals →What the insurer pays for, and how requests are decided.
• Motorcycle accident injury →The rider injury mix, and how treatment is funded.
• Whiplash treatment →How whiplash is graded and treated.

When work and the road overlap

Crash while carting grain to the silos in town, or driving out to a farm past Trungley Hall for your employer, and the employer's workers compensation insurer is normally the first stop. Where another motorist caused it, such as a car pulling out in front of your truck in Victoria Street, CTP may come into it as well, and the two claims can bear on each other. When the injury is from work, the first appointment with our doctors includes a Certificate of Capacity, which sets out what work you can do. If the crash was off the clock, say a Sunday run to Ariah Park, our doctors complete the Certificate of Fitness that the CTP insurer relies on. Local industries shape what we treat: backs, shoulders and knees hurt by lifting and machinery, strain from long hours in a cab, and the neck injuries that follow highway crashes. If fault for a Victoria Street crash is disputed, our partner firms can handle the legal side.

Driving for work: workers compensation usually comes first

CTP statutory benefits are not payable where workers compensation is payable for the same injury. The CTP side does not simply close, though: the CTP insurer can only refuse on that ground once you have made a successful workers compensation claim, or have not complied with its request to make one. Tell each insurer about the other claim.

Source: Motor Accident Injuries Act 2017 (NSW) s 3.35 (checked September 2026).

The commute is a different question

An ordinary drive between home and work is a workers compensation matter only where there is a real and substantial connection between the employment and the accident, such as an errand you were sent on. A plain commute tends to be a CTP matter on its own.

Source: SIRA, work break and journey claims (checked September 2026).

For app-based drivers and riders, whether you count as a worker is decided on the facts of the arrangement rather than the label in the app’s terms. More on car accidents at work in NSW and rideshare and delivery driver accidents.

Places in the Temora Shire

The council area takes in the places below, and we help people from all of them.

• Temora
• Ariah Park
• Springdale
• Combaning
• Grogan
• Trungley Hall
• Narraburra
• Mimosa
• Gidginbung
• Quandary
• Sebastopol
• Bectric
• Reefton

Main roads

The main roads through the council area include Burley Griffin Way, Goldfields Way, Mary Gilmore Way and Milvale Road (Temora to Young).

Getting around

• Temora is on the Lake Cargelligo railway line, which is used mainly for grain haulage and has no regular passenger trains
• Temora Airport has no regular scheduled passenger flights and is home to the Temora Aviation Museum
• The Burley Griffin Way (B94) and Goldfields Way (B85) cross in Temora

Neighbouring council areas: Bland Shire, Coolamon, Junee, Cootamundra-Gundagai and Hilltops.

Questions from people in the Temora Shire

Sources

Crash figures are Transport for NSW open data (CC BY 4.0). Scheme rules come from the legislation and guidance below.

• Transport for NSW, NSW Road Crash Data 2020 to 2024 (CRASH table, open data), retrieved 2 October 2026.
• Motor Accident Injuries Act 2017 (NSW), ss 3.11, 3.15, 3.28, 3.35 and 6.13
• Workers Compensation Act 1987 (NSW), ss 36 and 60
• Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 (NSW), ss 44, 49, 248, 261 and 267
• SIRA, Motor Accident Guidelines Part 4 (claims), paragraphs 4.68, 4.69, 4.78 and 4.79
• SIRA, guide for people injured in a motor vehicle accident
• SIRA, list of CTP insurers
• SIRA, Nominal Defendant
• SIRA, work break and journey claims
• Service NSW, apply for personal injury benefits (motor vehicle accident)
• NSW Road Rules 2014, r 287

Place details, population and area:

• Wikipedia: Temora Shire
• Wikipedia: Temora, New South Wales
• Wikipedia: Ariah Park
• Wikipedia: Burley Griffin Way
• Wikipedia: Goldfields Way
• Wikipedia: Temora railway station
• Wikipedia: Lake Cargelligo railway line
• Wikipedia: Temora Airport
• ABS 2021 Census QuickStats

This page is general information about the NSW workers compensation and CTP schemes, not legal or medical advice about your situation. Scheme rules were checked in September 2026. For advice about your own injury, speak to a treating clinician.