Great Ocean Road racers caught

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Great Ocean Road racers caught
Dina Rosendorff
02feb06

A CRACKDOWN on bad driving along the Great Ocean Rd has caught more than 100
drivers a weekend.











Police snared 355 drivers for breaching road rules on the famous coastal
stretch in the first three weekends of last month.

The operation had been meant to stop motorcyclists treating the road as
their playground, but it also caught many badly behaved car drivers.

More than 60 per cent of those booked drove cars.

Drivers were booked for speeding, crossing double lines, driving while
disqualified or unlicensed or for being over the 0.05 alcohol limit.

One motorcyclist was caught doing 170km/h in a 100km/h zone.

One person was found driving a stolen car.

Police aimed their speed guns at 10 places -- from behind bushes along the
road and cliff tops.

When an offender was identified, the "gun" pointers called ahead to roadside
police who pulled over the offenders.

"The topography of the road with its curves means it is awkward to enforce,
so we've resorted to this method to catch these riders and drivers," Sgt Pat
Cleary said.

"At some stages we were that busy we couldn't write fast enough," Sgt Cleary
said.

Sgt Cleary said police would continue this form of enforcement.

"We want people to know that if you come down to the Great Ocean Rd and
choose to breach the road rules, you've got a very good chance of being
caught," Sgt Cleary said.

 

Why dont they just lower the speed limit to, say, 50kph and make it easier
to enforce ... LOL.

Sounds like a great plan for Old Pacific Highway, plenty of bushes to hide
behind.

Best bit was getting unlicensed drivers/riders off the
road....well...identified anyway...

 

Insert obligatory "poor bugger must have been stuck in
second" here.

GB

 

"The topography of the road with its curves means it is awkward to enforce,

S'funny, all that makes me think is that if you're down there on a day
when they're not running this special blitz operation, you'll be
unlikely to be booked.. given it's normally "awkward to enforce" so
they had to "resort to this method"..

 

Absolutely. And after you've experienced the GOR on a weekday you'll
never want to go back on a weekend.

Nev..
'04 CBR1100XX

 

The Spurs are getting that way too.

Now that I'll be working roughly 9-5 hours instead of shift-work, midweek rides on the Spurs will be few and far between. :-(

 

Think the bastards are trying to clean up the state before the
games.......

Snowys are good this time of year

Greg

 

Think the bastards are trying to clean up the state before the
games.......

Snowys are good this time of year

Greg

 

Ooohwaaah. Is he dead?

We know all about Police writing skills.

Theo