Tag: Road Safety
Road frustration grows
Hundreds of people fed up with congestion and safety issues on Point Cook Road have signed a petition calling for action on the issue.
Point...
Crossing needed before luck runs out
An Altona Meadows resident is calling for pedestrian crossings at a major intersection before someone is hurt or killed.
Brett Sause says he walks to...
Police express dismay at drink driving
Police are dismayed that motorists are still driving after drinking or taking drugs despite numerous warnings and blitzes.
More than 83 offences, including seven involving...
VicRoads agrees to install cameras near school
Residents have won a decades-long fight for red light and speed cameras on a busy road near a Yarraville school.
Two cameras will be switched...
Police want you to ‘be here for next year’
Police are pleading with motorists to take extra care on the roads over Christmas as latest figures show that fixed road safety cameras in...
MPs behaving badly behind the wheel
Federal Gellibrand MP Tim Watts is urging locals to be safe on the roads at Christmas after admitting he received seven speeding fines in...
Plea to fix dangerous Yarraville intersection
Residents fed up with a dangerous Yarraville intersection are calling on VicRoads to help make it safer.
Belinda Wallin said she had another close call...
Operation Furlong nabs drivers
Police detected more than 90 offences in a recent blitz on Maribyrnong and Hobsons Bay roads.
Operation Furlong ran across the state for five days...
Driver killed in three-car crash in Maribyrnong
A man has died following a head-on car crash in Maribyrnong on Saturday night.
Police at the scene of the fatal collision believe a car travelling...
Man killed after driving wrong way on freeway
Police were unable to prevent a fatal head-on collision after a man was spotted driving on the wrong side of the Princes Freeway on Friday...
Mayor fed up with bridge crashes
Urgent action is needed to cut the number of over-height trucks crashing into Footscray’s Napier Street rail bridge following yet another collision last week,...
Footscray police blitz injury hotspots
Footscray police will soon be cracking down on pedestrians and cyclists in a bid to cut the number of injuries and deaths occurring on...
Joint police, sheriff operation nets $385,000
A joint operation between police and sheriff officers in Altona Meadows netted $385,000 in unpaid fines in one day.
Forty members of the Hobsons Bay...
New Tarneit base for Westgate highway patrol
Highway patrol crews from Footscray and Williamstown police stations will move to Tarneit this week in a combined effort to drive down road trauma...
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Give better this Christmas
It’s OK to veto Valentine’s Day and pay little heed to Halloween, but when it comes to Christmas most of us aren’t willing to...
