Inspector Pat Swindells from the Gympie Patrol Group.
The Fatal Five – speeding, fatigue, impaired driving (drink and drug), failure to wear a seat belt and driver distraction and inattention - will be high on the priority list.
There will be roadside testing for drugs and alcohol, and “covert and overt speed enforcement in high risk zones”.
Inspector Pat Swindells of the Gympie Patrol Group said police were concerned with a “growing number of lives lost” on Queensland roads.
“There has been a 46 per cent increase in vehicle related fatalities compared to the same time period last year,” Inspector Swindells said.
The high number of road deaths has increased in a shockingly tragic start to 2021, with 39 people dead from 35 fatal crashes in the state so far this year.
Both figures are a huge increase on this time last year, with 17 more fatal crashes and 20 more deaths as of last Sunday.
Queensland was the only state to record an increase in road deaths for 2020 with a toll of 267, 57 more than in 2019.
89 people died inside the Central police region last year, a span that includes Gympie, the Sunshine Coast and the Fraser Coast.
Officer in Charge of the Wide Bay Burnett District Road Policing Unit Sergeant Chris Watson said there were three more fatalities attended by the Gympie Patrol Group last year than there were in 2019.