THE boldness of a 10-year-old boy might be the difference in getting something done about one of the most dangerous sections of major roads in the south-west.

The two-kilometre stretch of the Coleraine-Edenhope Road, just north of the Glenelg Highway west of Coleraine, is without doubt one of the most compromised bitumen surfaces a vehicle could ever encounter in Victoria, with waves, angles and distortions that would look more at home on a rough ocean surface than a major road, and often carries loaded B-double trucks and regular traffic.