The New South Wales Government has been criticised for not doing enough to improve safety on the Princes Highway on the state's south coast.
A wire rope barrier has been installed along a 500-metre stretch of the road near Bendalong, where five people died in a fiery crash on Boxing Day.
"It's a start, but it's not enough. It's a Band-Aid solution," Lisa Elmas said.
Ms Elmas was the first to arrive at the scene of the collision and risked her life pulling Jessica Falkholt and her sister Annabelle from the burning wreckage.
"It was a warzone. It was horrific," she said.
"The scene was not something anybody would like to walk into.
"It's with me daily."
Eight weeks later, another two people died following a head-on crash just north of the same turnoff at Bendalong.
Ms Elmas said currently there was no room for error on the road and has called for the highway to be duplicated to the Victorian border.
"I do feel obviously a safer, better, wider road is going to help," she said.
NSW Paramedic Scott Styles attended both fatal crashes and said he had been rocked by the sheer loss of life.
"It's exhausting, absolutely exhausting," Mr Styles said.
"It has affected our paramedics.
"It's terrible to say but we all go home at the end of our day and you give your families a big hug, because you just know it could be them."
The Berejiklian Government has invested $350,000 installing the wire rope barriers in time for the busy, Easter long weekend.
The funding was allocated as part of a $125 million package to improve safety on regional roads across the state.
Ms Elmas said she was sceptical, believing it would not go far enough to save lives.
"The holiday season is chaotic and the road is well-used," she said.
"We are a very big tourism area down here and there's a lot of people on the road, and it needs to be fixed."
More improvements expected after Easter
New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian has brushed aside criticisms of her Government's highway safety measures.
"We have made some improvements already," Ms Berejiklian said.
"There will be more improvements made after Easter as well and if there's anything further we need to do, we will."
The Premier made the comments during a trip to Ulladulla on Tuesday.
She was joined by deputy police commissioner Catherine Burn and assistant police commissioner Michael Corboy, as they launched Operation Tortoise ahead of the Easter long weekend.
The road safety operation will target speeding, drink driving and seatbelt offences.
Ninety-four people have lost their lives on the state's roads this year.
Thousands of tourists are expected to travel on the Princes Highway as they descend on the popular coastal region for the four-day long weekend.
