“I think overall the motoring public, given the inclement weather and the increased people on the road their driving behaviour has been pretty good across the board,” he said, but added the 143 speeding fines was “unfortunate”.
“We will be actively enforcing the road rules over the every day of the year but this time we were certainly out there in greater numbers.
“That’s resulted in 143 people getting caught.
“None of those were over the high-speed range (40kmh over the speed limit), that’s a positive but every k over is a killer.”
Police will continue their traffic campaign over the school holidays until April 18.
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A Mackay police officer is pleading with road users to sharpen their senses to curb the carnage of motorcyclists on Queensland roads.
âUnfortunately this year to date weâve had 10 motorcycle fatalities on our roads in Queensland, compared to three last year,â Road Policing Unit Sergeant Simon Robinson said.
âIt is a really scary statistic that weâre coming to, considering weâre only in February.
âObviously bikes are fast, they do approach cars very quickly and a lot of the time they are small so car drivers donât look for them.â Mackay Road Policing Unit Sergeant Simon Robinson is urging motorcyclists and drivers to take care on the roads. Picture: Heidi Petith
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A slammed front door has foiled the attempt of wannabe thieves who were found rummaging through a Mackay resident’s car.
Mackay District Police Senior Constable Steve Smith said a Beaconsfield resident was woken by the noise between 2.30am and 2.35am on Thursday.
“The resident hopped out of bed to investigate and sighted multiple people searching the interior of their car that was parked in the driveway,” Sen-Constable Smith said.
“The thieves were then verbally challenged and ran towards a nearby parked gold small four cylinder car which they used to leave the area.”
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