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Drivers are being urged to avoid making “reckless” decisions amid a deadly start to the year’s state road toll, and Gympie motorists’ behaviour is among the worst in the Wide Bay.
Police data shows 25 dangerous driving crimes recorded in the Gympie police division in 2020, an average rate of five people charged per 100,000 residents every month of the year.
While this may sound small it has placed the region in a tie with Bundaberg for the highest rate of dangerous driving in the Wide Bay Burnett, and on par with the Queensland average.
The call for safer driving follows a horror start to the road toll: 50 people have been killed on Queensland’s roads in the first 64 days of the year, 18 more than for the same time last year.
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Two people were arrested when the incident occurred near Talybont-on-Usk on Saturday, March 6. Dyfed Powys Police said the driver initially failed to stop for officers near Crickhowell and Brecon. The force even had to use the National Police Air Service in their pursuit of the car – a small black Citroen hatchback – and had to deploy stingers to stop it; the car eventually crashing on the tow path near Talybont. A slew of charges have been brought against the driver, including dangerous driving and driving while disqualified – their eighth offence of driving while disqualified in five years. The force’s Powys Roads Policing unit tweeted on Saturday: “Vehicle failed to stop for local officers near to Crickhowell. Picked up by Brecon RPU.