"I'm particularly concerned about the upgraded junction of Donnelly Road and Main Road 217. It's a death trap waiting to happen. I've been close to being in accidents there myself twice in the last couple of months," he said.

"The junction at Buttaba where the motorcyclist was killed last week is very similar to this one at Donnelly Road, only this is worse because it is on a blind bend," he said.

"There will be more accidents at both places until the problems are sorted out. All that money, millions of dollars, was spent on an over-the-top roundabout at Dorrington Road and this junction here at Donnelly Road when all we really needed was some basic common sense applied including probably a conventional roundabout," Mr Thorburn said.

"Whoever designs these things needs to talk to locals and actually act on what they are told because sitting in an office and making remote decisions doesn't work."

Mr Thorburn says he believes the way the traffic lanes at the Donnelly Road junction were originally marked was actually safer before the Federal Government spent more than a million dollars upgrading the intersection.

"There were two distinct lanes going south and drivers coming out of Donnelly Road wanting to turn right had to wait for both lanes to be clear to be sure it was safe," he said.

"But now one of the lanes is a committed turn left lane and drivers waiting to turn right will pull out in front of the lane knowing the vehicle has to be going left. If that vehicle happens to be a large truck in the turn left land and there's a another vehicle on its offside in the through lane, there's every chance the driver turning right can't see the second vehicle until it is too late," he said.