Updated March 27, 2018 14:58:29

Photo: A wire rope barrier has been installed at the scene of the Boxing Day accident that killed five. (ABC News)

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.

Photo: This Christmas Day snap of the Falkholt family may have been the last taken of them together. (Supplied: Facebook)

"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.

Photo: Barriers have been erected in the middle of the road on the Princes Highway where the Falkholt family crashed. (ABC News: Ainsley Drewitt-Smith)

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.

Photo: A plaque stands where the Falkholts crashed on the Princes Highway, just north of Bendalong. (ABC News: Ainsley Drewitt-Smith)

"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."

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.

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First posted March 27, 2018 06:27:56