Sixty Wyndham drivers were caught speeding during Operation Arid held over the Labour Day long weekend.
There were double the amount of drivers caught speeding than there were for the next most common offence, disobeying signs/signals, with 30.
Overall there were 154 traffic offences detected in Wyndham during the police operation which took place from March 8 to 11.
Speeding accounted for more than two-thirds of offences and combined with disobeying signs and signals, more than half, with unregistered vehicles (14) and unlicensed drivers (11) the only others in double figures.
The trend was replicated statewide, with speeding drivers making up nearly 3000 of the final total of 6488 traffic offences detected during the operation.
The 2843 speeding offences detected was more than 2000 ahead of the next highest offence – unregistered vehicles – on 532.
Acting Assistant Commissioner for Road Policing, John Fitzpatrick, was disappointed with the results.
“The number of drivers we’ve seen speeding this long weekend is simply unacceptable,” he said.
“To think so many people were driving at extreme speeds is even more worrying,”
One in 10 drivers caught speeding during Operation Arid were travelling at more than 25 kilometres per hour over the limit.
“At high speed there’s little room for error and the consequences of a mistake are magnified. To put it bluntly, it’s a recipe for disaster.”
Five deaths were recorded over the four days of the operation.
So far this year 57 people have died on Victoria’s roads compared with 69 at the same time last year.
Cade Lucas.
