It is a notoriously dangerous stretch of road that has claimed many lives due to speed and uncontrolled intersections.

The Sages Road intersection is now controlled by traffic lights after numerous fatal and serious accidents at this high speed T-intersection.[when?]

The road was eventually linked directly to the southern part of Mornington Peninsula Freeway when it was extended to Tuerong in 1994.

The passing of the Transport Act of 1983[2] (itself an evolution from the original Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924[3]) provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through the Road Construction Authority (later VicRoads).

The passing of the Road Management Act 2004[5] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads declared this road as the Mornington Peninsula Route (previously Arterial #6600),[6] then re-declared it in late 2012 as Moorooduc Highway (Arterial #6860),[6] beginning from the Frankston Freeway in Frankston and ending at the interchange where Peninsula Link and Mornington Peninsula Freeway meet in Tuerong.