Hume Highway: Huge NSW traffic and Highway Patrol operation

A NSW highway is set to be saturated with cops as part of a major police operation targetting dodgy drivers.

Summer Hill police target

NSW Police are setting up a “blitz” along the Hume Highway which is being called operation Furious.

Over a four-day operation, between March 5 and March 8, the Hume Highway will be saturated with Traffic & Highway Patrol officers along the 840km stretch from Summer Hill in Sydney to Albury on the Victorian border in a bid to stop speeding and dangerous driving offences.

The first deployment will see more than 140 NSW and Victoria Traffic and Highway patrol operatives as well as mobile and stationary speed enforcement to reduce fatal crashes.

Southwest acting superintendent Greg Donaldson says its everyone’s responsibility to keep our roads safe.

“Over the last 10 years, 81 lives have been lost from 76 crashes along the Hume Highway between Sydney and Albury,” he said

“Overwhelmingly, these crashes have been a result of driver behaviour, in the form of speeding, alcohol or drugs, fatigue or other poor driving choice, these lives could have been saved if drivers took greater responsibility when getting behind the wheel.”

“This sort of behaviour won’t be tolerated and we have drivers doing the wrong thing in our sights.”