By Danielle Kutchel
Police were out in force over the Australia Day weekend as thousands of Victorians flocked to regional areas to soak up the summer sun.
Operation Amity ran from midnight on Friday 22 January until 11.59 on Tuesday 26 January, with a focus on impaired driving, speeding, fatigue and mobile phone use while driving.
According to Victoria Police, regional Victoria is a high risk for road trauma due to increased speeds in regional areas, longer distances travelled by drivers and the influx of other road users.
Operation Amity involved all available personnel from local road policing units to general duties and centralised support from other operational policing units.