Although the lake has proved treacherous for sailors, it's no match for the deadly, man-made scenario of the 1980s and 1990s, when major highways were being duplicated between Canberra and Sydney, leaving a stretch of single carriageway along the end of Lake George. Drivers who didn't slow down on the inferior road often paid with their life. In a six year period 21 lives were lost. The years 1989 and 1990 were horrors with 56 crashes, four deaths and 19 injuries as construction of a dual carriageway finally began.
Lake Road has been here a long time (1830s) when it used to take traffic from Bungendore to Collector. Take care, especially after heavy rain and when parking to grab a cache.