Nearly 60 traffic offences were recorded in Brimbank across the Labour Day weekend as part of Victoria Police’s Operation Arid.
Almost 7000 traffic offences were recorded across the four days of the operation with Speeding, impaired driving, mobile phone use and unauthorised driving the key issues detected by police.
In Brimbank, speeding was the top offence with 27 drivers caught over the limit. There were 2573 offences recorded across the state.
There were five unlicensed drivers and five vehicles were impounded in Brimbank.
There were four drug drivers, four seat belt offences and four drivers caught driving unregistered cars.
Three disqualified drivers were discovered in Brimbank, while there were two mobile phone offences, one drink driving offence and one cyclist offence.
Assistant Commissioner Road Policing Glenn Weir said considering it was a long weekend, with high traffic volumes and good weather, that the majority of people were doing the right thing.
“Disappointingly though, we continue to detect motorists for the type of behaviour that’s been contributing to road trauma this year – that being speed, distraction, and impaired driving.
“It is simply not good enough to just ignore the warnings – the reality is, there has been more lives lost on our roads than there have been days this year.”
