May 23rd, 2025Speeding drivers caught during Road Safety Week
Police have detected close to 1,000 traffic offences during a major road safety operation across Victoria last week.
Operation Action was conducted on Monday 12 May as part of National Road Safety Week.
The annual initiative highlights the impact of road trauma and the importance of safe driving habits, with each day incorporating a road safety theme.
Monday’s nationwide focus on speed saw Victoria Police Highway Patrol units, Public Order Response Team officers and general duties police enforcing speed across the state’s roads.
There were a total 930 offences detected during the operation – with speeding offences making up more than half of all detections.
Of the 530 total speeding offences, 80 per cent were drivers caught speeding between 10km/h and 25km/h over the speed limit.
Police conducted 5,661 preliminary breath tests, with eight drink driving offences detected, and a further 19 drug driving offences were detected from 277 roadside drug tests.
The total 930 offences detected during Operation Action included:
- 530 speeding offences
- 50 disobey signs/signals
- 41 disqualified/suspended and unlicenced drivers
- 39 mobile phone offences
- 19 drug driving offences from 277 roadside drug tests
- 8 drink driving offences from 5,661 preliminary breath tests
- 5 seat belt offences
- 23 vehicle impounds; and
- 72 unregistered vehicles.
Police will continue to be highly visible and enforcing across the state’s roads, in an effort to drive down road trauma.
It followed a horror period on Victorian roads, with multiple lives lost.
National Road Safety Week ran from Sunday 11 May to Sunday 18 May 2025.
Victoria Police encourages all road users to show their support for the initiative, which calls on motorists to “pledge to drive so others survive”.
