ACT Policing has wrapped up its month-long focus on speeding and red-light running which it ran in May.
Detective Acting Superintendent for Road Policing, Donna Hofmeier said the police issued 386 fines and 52 cautions for speeding in May, as well as 52 fines and 11 cautions for not stopping at red lights.
“Each of these incidents put the offender and other road users in danger,” Detective A/Superintendent Hofmeier said.
“Each time a driver fails to stop for a red light or speeds, they are putting both themselves and other road users at risk of injury or death,” she said.
“We conducted operations targeting speeding and red-light running this month and it has been disappointing how often these offences have been detected.”
Detective A/Superintendent Hofmeier said ACT Policing’s road safety focus for June is distracted driving, with drivers asked to concentrate on the job of driving and avoid all distractions while behind the wheel.
“We continue to ask Canberra’s drivers to obey all traffic signals and to keep to the posted speed limit,” she said.
“If everyone did that, we would see far less collisions and deaths on our roads.”
