Casey Traffic Management Unit Sergeant Pat McGavigan will be one of many police By Callan Date
POLICE will take a zero tolerance approach to speeding motorists during a blitz in Endeavour Hills.
Casey’s top traffic cop Sergeant Pat McGavigan has outlined the position after a recent Casey Council report identified David Collins Drive as a major problem.
The road has been described as a race track by residents who live in the residential area.
Sgt McGavigan said police randomly select areas to monitor speed and enforce the speed limit.
“Casey Traffic Management Unit, with Endeavour Hills Police, will prosecute any driver they detect exceeding the speed limit,” he said.
“The problem is it is normally local residents committing offences in the residential areas.”
Several locals have contacted the News with their concerns over driver behaviour.
Odette Grantham spoke out after an out-of-control vehicle wrecked her parked car in May.
And Lynne Bryan wrote to the News this week with her concerns.
“How can we report a speeding vehicle registration when it is too fast to read and/or it is dark,” she wrote.
“Why do we allow this free sport to continue until someone innocent is killed, or a vehicle ends up crashed in a house as is happening more frequently in Casey?”
In the five-year period to 30 June 2007, there has been one serious injury accident and one other injury accident on David Collins Drive.
