{"id":318551,"date":"2022-05-23T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=318551"},"modified":"2022-05-23T21:00:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T11:00:25","slug":"police-target-speeding-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2022\/05\/23\/police-target-speeding-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Target Speeding Drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>May 23, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Police are disappointed by the number of motorists they have detected speeding recently on the Wide Bay, Burnett and Bunya highways, particularly considering the recent weather.<\/p>\n<p>Kilkivan and Goomeri police and the Gympie Patrol Group have been stopping and fining drivers and riders on all three highways.<\/p>\n<p>About 3:30pm on May 17, a 44-year-old Adare man riding a motorcycle was detected travelling at 139km\/h in an 100km\/h zone on the Burnett Highway at Goomeri.\u00a0He received $643 fine and lost six demerit points.<\/p>\n<p>Five more drivers fined ($459 and four demerit points) for exceeding the speed limit by more than 20km\/h but not more than 30km\/h:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>About 4:50pm on May 5, a 19-year-old Southside man was travelling at 130km\/h on the Wide Bay Highway at Woolooga<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>About 2:00pm on May 15, a 24-year-old Fitzgibbon man was travelling at 121km\/h on the Wide Bay Highway at Kilkivan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>About 6:30am on May 16, a 30-year-old Dulong man was travelling at 123km\/h\u00a0 on the Wide Bay Highway at Kilkivan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>About 11:00am on May 18, a 61-year-old Widgee man was travelling at 124km\/h on the Wide Bay Highway at Lower Wonga<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>About 3:30pm on May 18, a 55-year-old Monto man was travelling at 122km\/h on the Burnett Highway at Booubyjan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As well, 18 drivers were detected exceeding the speed limit by at least 13km\/h but not more than 20km\/h, which incurs a $275 fine and a loss of three demerit points; and five were detected exceeding the speed limit by less than 13km\/h which incurs a $183 fine and the loss of one demerit point.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Speeding has a direct consequence on your life and those around you,&#8221; Senior Constable Darren Hewitt said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police are urging motorists, particularly in light of the recent significant weather events, to slow down and remember that speeding is a Fatal Five factor, along with not wearing seat belts, drink or drug driving, fatigue and distraction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Expect police anywhere, anytime.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are disappointed by the number of motorists they have detected speeding recently on the region&#8217;s highways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":93665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,24],"tags":[1132],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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