By Lia Bichel
police have vowed to drive down the number of serious injuries and fatalities on Casey roads this year.
This follows Operation Summer Stay, a highly successful 52-day holiday enforcement campaign, which began on 18 November.
In Casey, police conducted 17,331 breath tests.
They detected 56 drink driving offences, 105 disqualified and unlicensed drivers, 468 speed offences, 99 seatbelt offences and 121 mobile offences.
Casey Highway Patrol Acting Senior Sergeant Pat McGavigan said he was pleased no-one died on Casey roads during the holidays and said police would continue their focus to reduce dangerous driving into the new year.
“Operation Summerstay was positive, with no-one losing their lives in Casey. However, there were three serious injury collisions,” he said. “During the year, there were four fatalities on the roads, down from seven the previous year. The challenge now is to keep those numbers down.”
Act Sen Sgt McGavigan said one of the main focuses would be on speeding drivers and distracted drivers.
“A lot of people get too complacent when driving cars and driving cars takes concentration – that moment of misjudgment is when incidents happen, and that’s what we’re trying to stop,” he said.
“We’re enforcing (the road rules) as hard as we can to stop people getting hurt.”
Head of Road Policing and Acting Chief Commissioner Kieran Walshe said that he was disappointed that across the state, 2600 drink drivers were caught by police throughout the Summer Stay enforcement campaign and said police would not stop targeting dangerous driving.
“While our Summer Stay campaign has concluded, that doesn’t mean that police are now going on holiday.
As always, we will be out on roads across the state targeting speed, distraction, fatigue and drink and drug driving,” Mr Walshe said.
“As we enter a new year on our roads I want it to be a safe one for all Victorians.”
As part of the state-wide operation, police breath 1,128,359 tested drivers, detected 2610 drink drivers, detected 397 drug drivers, detected 4510 disqualified and unlicensed drivers, detected 3584 seatbelt offences, detected 23,050 speeding offences, detected 5734 mobile phone offences and impounded 433 vehicles.
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