Bad weekend on roads

By Jade Lawton
CARDINIA Police are angered by a spate of offences combining the lethal mix of speeding and drink-driving on Cardinia Shire roads on the weekend.
Sergeant Mal Marsden of Cardinia’s Traffic Management Unit said he was exasperated by the weekend’s poor record and police would step up their enforcement.
“I am sick of checking the member’s daily work and finding that speed and alcohol related offences are a daily occurrence,” he said.
“People aren’t heeding the warnings regarding speed and continue to treat the roads like their own private race track.”
His comments come after six speedsters lost their licences for travelling up to 52 km/h over the speed limit – with two of those blowing three times the legal Blood Alcohol limit between Saturday morning to Sunday night.
At 1.42am on Saturday, police caught a 41-year-old Mountain View man travelling at 124km/h through Officer. The man blew 0.115 and will appear at Dandenong Magistrates’ Court.
Later that morning, police caught two motorists, one a 34-year-old Hastings man and one a 46-year-old man from Berwick, doing 131 km/h on the South Gippsland Highway in Monomeith. Both lost their licences for one month.
At 3am on Sunday a 21-year-old Doncaster man was checked on the Princes Freeway, Pakenham at 152km/h. The man blew 0.152 and his vehicle was impounded for 48 hours. He will face Dandenong Magistrates’ Court.
Later that day, police caught a Cockatoo woman, 23, doing 108km/h in a 60 km/h zone in Avonsleigh and a Noojee man, 26, travelling at 128 km/h in Nar Nar Goon.