Ms McGhie hit two kangaroos, at once, on the Hume Highway on the way home from work in the early hours of the morning recently.

The two animals, which she said weren’t fully grown, caused about $5000 worth of damage to her Holden Commodore.

“I just came over the rise, on my way home on the highway and there they were just sitting there right in the middle of the road,” she told the Tribune on Monday.

She said she hit one kangaroo head-on while the other collided with the side of her car, enough to roll on to her bonnet and damage her windscreen.

A recent spike in kangaroo-related accidents means George Parkin at Yass Towing Services is being kept busy.

While he admits it is good for business, it remains a cause for concern.

“It’s good for us because it means work but people’s safety is more important, that’s for sure,” he said.

He said he had received around seven call outs to tow cars affected by kangaroos over the last week.

“We might go a whole week without a call for a ‘roo accident or only just get one, seven is a lot.”

“You have to remember the number of cars that continue to drive after hitting them as well, I mean trucks for example just flatten them and keep going.”

Mr Parkin said he believed the end of the full moon would make a difference but it would still be an issue.

“There is just too many of them around here, it seems like there are more rabbits than ‘roos. It’s dangerous because you really don’t know when you’re going to hit one.”

Wildcare volunteer Sandra Latham said the number of reports of injured kangaroos has increased as well.

She believed the full moon was largely to blame.

“The moon encourages the kangaroos to go out and eat the green on the edge of the road, and then they get hit,” she explained.

She said driving to the Field Days on the weekend she counted eight dead kangaroos on the side of the road between Yass and Murrumbateman.

“I was driving from Young and there were about six or so between Young and Yass then there were eight in that small distance.”

She believed culling wasn’t a solution.

“The kangaroos were here before houses. People used to feed them a long time ago with bread and now they feel there is too many so we need to cull them, it’s not right.”

Ms McGhie disagreed and said they were “good for nothing”.

“We have cows and sheep making this country money and the ‘roos are just eating all the feed…I think there needs to be a cull.”

The Tribune attempted to contact Yass Valley Council about the number of kangaroos on Yass Valley roads but at the time of going to press it had not returned our calls.