Despite a horror week on Victorian roads, Bendigo Police have praised central Victorian drivers for staying safe these school holidays.
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Highway Patrol Sergeant Geoff Annand hoped the second week of the school holidays followed the positive trend of the first.
"There's been nothing that has stood out this week," he said. "Touch wood nothing else transpires.
"We've been targeting the normal areas; speed, drugs, alcohol and general distractions and that's typical of what the whole central Victorian highway patrol teams look out for throughout the holiday period."
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Sergeant Annand said while there hadn't been any road accidents across the region throughout the holiday period, he said Bendigo Police had caught drugged and drunk drivers.
"There's been the normal irresponsible behaviour on the roads; we're always getting drunk and drugged drivers," he said.
"We've had three drug drivers over the past couple of days. Over the past month there have been some days with more, but other days there's been some less.
"Nothing has really changed over school holidays except pick-up and drop-off school times are lighter with traffic.
"There are still a lot of visitors to the area but nothing that's causing us issues."
Sergeant Annand said one thing he'd like to see improve on central Victorian roads was for drivers to turn on their headlights.
"Particularly in low visibility periods, I'd love to see more drivers with their headlights on," he said.
"This is a message every winter. I find it remarkable that people don't put on their headlights."
Victoria Police's Assistant Commissioner Road Policing Libby Murphy spoke on Friday about the horror road accident week across the state.
"It's been a terrible week on Victorian roads with six deaths and a number of life-threatening injuries," she said. "In the past 24 hours we've had four deaths.
"We know people are coming out of Covid restrictions and it's school holidays. We really want to implore you to be safe on out roads."
Assistant Commissions Murphy said drug presence, not wearing seatbelts and phone usage were overrepresented in collisions.
"But speed is the greatest cause of death on our roads in Victoria," she said. "Think about saving two minutes, is it really worth it when you're risking someone else's life?"
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