Victorian drivers are being urged to take much more care when traversing the state’s roads, because the highway toll hits a 15-year excessive.
13 folks have been killed on Victorian roads on the Melbourne Cup weekend alone, together with 5 within the horrific crash at a Daylesford pub on Sunday night.
It brings the Victorian highway toll thus far in 2023 to 251 lives misplaced – the very best since 2008 when 256 folks have been killed on the similar level within the 12 months and greater than the whole thing of 2022 when 241 folks misplaced their lives.
Street Policing Assistant Commissioner Glenn Weir stated the quantity of lives misplaced over the weekend was “incomprehensible.”
“The very fact we’ve additionally surpassed lives misplaced for all of final 12 months and reached the very best variety of fatalities in 15-years is simply really tragic,” Mr Weir stated.
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“With two months to go within the 12 months, it’s extremely regarding that we discover ourselves on this place.
“This must be a wake-up name to everybody – don’t suppose that highway trauma can’t occur to you as a result of it may.”
Victoria Police carried out Operation Furlong from midnight Friday to Tuesday inclusive.
Throughout that point, 287 drink-driving offences have been recorded in addition to 176 drug-driving offences, 3246 rushing offences, and 213 seatbelt offences.
Mr Weir stated too many motorists have been nonetheless being caught doing the flawed factor.
“Street security is everybody’s duty, and we’d like all highway customers to take extra care on the roads – significantly as we head in direction of the high-risk interval on the finish of the 12 months,” he stated.
An 18-year-old Deniliquin man was killed when the ute he was driving hit a tree by Serpentine on Friday morning.
Seven extra folks died on Saturday from varied crashes across the state, together with a 20-year-old man hit and killed by a automotive on the Monash Freeway at Mount Waverley and a 37-year-old bike owner hit and killed whereas using by Oakleigh East.
And people killed within the Daylesford pub crash on Sunday — two males, 30 and 38, a 44-year-old lady, a nine-year-old woman, and an 11-year-old boy — introduced the weekend’s toll to 13.
