Victoria Police launch road safety campaign targeting poor driver behaviour
A new Victoria Police road safety campaign has been launched after a dramatic increase in road fatalities.
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A DRAMATIC increase in road fatalities has prompted the launch of a new Victoria Police road safety campaign in western Victoria.
Statistics reveal a 50.7 per cent rise in road deaths on the state’s roads in the last 12 months.
Yesterday marked the beginning of Operation Verat, a three-day high-visibility road policing operation across four western regions focusing on two major highways and targeting poor driver behaviour.
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Police will have a highly visible presence on the region’s two major roads — the Hamilton Highway and the Glenelg Highway. The police presence also includes feeder roads between Inverleigh and Lismore on the Hamilton Hwy and Linton and Glenthompson on the Glenelg Highway.
Poor driver behaviour will be a focus given these areas have been over represented with road trauma in Victoria’s South West.
Senior Sergeant Chris Asenjo said police had responded to a double fatality on the Glenelg Highway at Carranballac and a triple fatality at Cressy in recent months.
“We are seeing bad driver behaviours all too frequently on the major highways so we’ll have police out around the clock trying to deter poor driver behaviour,” he said.
“It’s an opportunity to change driver behaviour to reduce speed-related collisions and will also provide road users and the local community with some public reassurance.”
Operation Verat will focus on country road users, speed, impaired drivers, seatbelts, on and off-road motorcycles, fatigue due to long distance travel and also driver distraction through mobile technology and navigation devices.
Operation Verat will run until 11.59pm tomorrow in Western Division Regions 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Originally published as Victoria Police launch road safety campaign targeting poor driver behaviour
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