Easter weekend police operation

It follows a shocking start to the year on Victoria’s roads with 89 lives lost, up 25 per cent on the five-year average.

Good Friday accounted for almost a quarter of all detections over the Easter period, with 101 motorists caught drink and drug driving on this day alone.

More than a third of all offences detected were for speeding, with almost 80 per cent of motorists detected between 10km/h and 25km/h over the speed limit.

Almost a quarter of speeding offences were detected on Easter Monday, the final day of the operation.

Mobile phone offences jumped 31 per cent from last year’s Easter road policing operation with 343 motorists caught using their phones while driving.

Police also detected and removed 529 unauthorised drivers from roads, including suspended, disqualified and unlicensed drivers.

The total 7741 offences detected during Operation Nexus included:

There were two lives lost on Victorian roads over the Easter period, with single-vehicle fatal collisions in White Hills on Friday and Wangaratta on Sunday.