gates were needed to protect against a "second train coming". This crash, through the intervention of the local State member, Mr Daryl Maguire MP, Member for Wagga Wagga led the NSW Government to request the Joint Standing Committee on Road Safety (the STAYSAFE Committee) of New South Wales Parliament to conduct a review of the safety of railway level crossings. The report of the Committee (STAYSAFE 56, 2004) was a comprehensive review of road, vehicle, driver and railway-related factors involved in level crossing incidents and crashes. The findings and recommendations of the report led to major reform of railway level crossing safety across Australia. Five Mates Crossing Following the deaths, an overbridge was built to remove the level crossing, with completion on 16 December 2005. Originally costed in 2001 at $12.5 million, by June 2004 the cost had increased to $18.5 million, and was finally completed at a cost of $24.5 million. The overbridge is named the "Five Mates Crossing" bridge, in memory of the five young men, all friends, who were killed: Kyle Michael Wooden, Luke Gellie Milne, Cameron Michael Tucker, Graham Charles Kelly and Ben Wilkins. They had been heading to Albury to attend an evening rugby league match. Commemorative crosses and memorial plate were set alongside the Olympic Highway 50 metres south of the crossing on the northbound lane, but were removed around 2019. The bridge has faced ongoing criticism since its opening in 2006. It was argued that the steep ascent and decent combined with the sharp junction and no turning lane presents a danger to drivers. Particularly those crossing in trucks, farm machines and other agricultural vehicles that are limited in the speed. Despite the construction of the crossing, another fatal crash occurred on the bridge in 2013. The driver of one vehicle died after their vehicle crossed into the path of another resulting in a head on collision. Then in 2016, a car and truck collied on the crossing resulting in the driver of the car dying at the scene. Inquest The inquest into the Gerogery level crossing deaths necessarily canvassed a wide variety of issues in road and rail transport. The inquest also examined questions of driver behaviour, notably the common belief that level crossing crashes can often be caused by drivers seeking to "beat the train" and not be delayed in their journey by stopping for a train to pass over the