One in 13 drivers commit an offence

One in 13 drivers commit an offence in St Kilda during Operation Chauffeur

A POLICE operation in St Kilda this weekend found one in 13 drivers committing an offence.

Port Phillip Highway Patrol targeted Greeves St and Grey St in St Kilda on Friday and Saturday night where they detected 75 traffic offences from 1003 motorists pulled over.

Operation Chauffeur also captured 34 drink drivers, with police expressing their disappointment at the high number of offences.

Results included:

A 35-year-old Bacchus Marsh man was charged with offences including drink driving, stating a false name and address, being a suspended driver, soliciting for prostitution and failing to have headlights on;

A 32-year-old Elwood man drink driving returned a reading of .189; and

A 34-year-old St Kilda man returned a reading of .165.

Epping Highway Patrol also ran Operation Face the Music at the same time.

It caught a teenage girl, who has been licensed for only three weeks, drink driving after she was pulled over in her mum’s car on High Street, Northcote, about 5.54am.

The 18-year-old Preston teen blew .087, resulting in an immediate licence suspension.

She was one of 11 drivers caught behind the wheel over the alcohol limit or with drugs in their system.

A man’s driving licence was suspended immediately after he returned a alcohol reading of .126.

He is expected to be charged on summons for drink driving and failing to have an alcohol interlock device fitted to his vehicle.

“The two operations, jointly funded by the TAC, are targeting alcohol and drug driving, speed, fatigue and driver distraction offences during the high-risk Christmas period,” Victoria Police's Acting Sergeant Jessica Rosewarne said.

Victoria Police’s Summer Stay campaign will run across Victoria through to January 9.

“Police are urging motorists to stay safe or stay off the road this summer,” Acting Sgt Rosewarne said.

 heraldsun.com.au 16 Dec 2012

It Australia, the politics is to give out licenses.

Anyone with the least bit of driving skills or coordination is able to obtain a license, paying special attention to overseas migrants with little vehicular control history.

License instructors are easily bribed, and newly appointed migrant instructors give away licenses to the applicants of their country's origin.

Quite simply put trash drivers on the road turn an entire industry, from insurance companies to the automotive repair trade, which as a result turns over many millions of dollars annually at the expence of the general populous.