Police have detected close to 5,000 traffic offences during a major road safety blitz over the Labour Day long weekend in Victoria.
Operation Arid saw police targeting high-risk driving behaviour across the state over four days, in an effort to drive down road trauma.
Speeding offences made up almost half of all detections, with 75 per cent of drivers caught speeding between 10km/h and 25km/h over the speed limit.
Police conducted 69,166 preliminary breath tests, with one in every 455 motorists tested caught drink driving.
A further 197 drivers returned a positive roadside drug test, with 4,266 roadside drug tests conducted.
The total 4,952 offences detected during Operation Arid included:
• 2,330 speeding offences
• 227 disobey signs/signals
• 197 drug driving offences from 4,226 roadside drug tests
• 173 unlicensed drivers
• 152 drink driving offences from 69,166 preliminary breath tests
• 145 mobile phone offences
• 133 disqualified/suspended drivers
• 99 seat belt offences
• 80 vehicle impounds; and
• 470 unregistered vehicles
Locally, sixteen offences have been picked up on Mildura’s roads, more than half of those were for speeding, while there was also one drink and one drug driver pulled over between Friday and Monday.
