ACT Policing has been kept busy on Canberra’s roads due to a large number of collisions and multiple instances of poor driver behaviour.
Officer in Charge of Road Policing, Detective Station Sergeant Marcus Boorman expressed his continued frustration at drivers who break the law.
“I don’t know what’s causing this driver behaviour, but I do know what the effect will be, someone’s luck will run out and we’ll have a person, or people killed,” Detective Sergeant Boorman said.
“Police are seeing so many drivers doing the wrong thing, and it’s not just my Road Policing team seeing it, it’s General Duties officers in marked cars, it’s Criminal Investigations officers on their way to other jobs, and they’re all issuing infringements,” he said.
“We’re catching people speeding, drink driving, drug driving, using their phones, and ignoring red lights on a daily basis, yet every day we’re catching more people doing it.”
Detective Sergeant Boorman said it shouldn’t take the threat of being caught to make people do the right thing.
“These people are, simply, risking lives,” he said.
“This behaviour has to stop.”
He said a few of the incidents which required police response last week included two vehicles detected in excess of 150km/h on Parkes Way; one vehicle detected at 140km/h in an 80 zone in Fyshwick; a car that collided into a house in Kambah; another that rolled several times on the Federal Highway; and a ute which rear-ended another vehicle on the Monaro Highway.
Detective Sergeant Boorman said many of those incidents also involved drug or drink driving.
