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The Hume Highway isn’t a freeway, but NSW police have caught several drivers this week who seem to think it is.
Several motorists were caught by police as part of a crackdown on speeding and dangerous driving on the Hume Freeway, dubbed Operation Furious.
On Monday, June 17 at 10:35 p.m., police stopped a BMW driver and a Mitsubishi driver on the Home Highway in Woodbine for allegedly speeding, both traveling at 212 km/h in a 110 km/h zone.
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The 23-year-old driver of one vehicle from Queensland had his NSW driving license revoked; the 24-year-old NSW-licensed driver of the other vehicle had his license suspended.
Both drivers were issued with future court notices for organizing or promoting a competition between vehicles, “driving recklessly/furiously or at an unsafe speed/manner” and exceeding the speed limit by more than 45km/h.
At 7am on Monday, police stopped a green P-plate Volkswagen Golf in Mittagong for allegedly doing 191km/h in a 110km/h zone.
Based on his P2 licence, he should have been traveling at a speed of no more than 100 km/h.
The driver received an infringement notice for “P2 driver exceeding the speed limit – over 45 km/h” and was given a $2,794 fine and a six-month license suspension.
Two more drivers were pulled over in the next 90 minutes for suspected speeding.
Police say the first driver, who was doing 148km/h in a 110km/h zone, said they were “late for an exam” when they stopped.
The second was said to have been traveling at 156km/h with his family in the car but admitted they were speeding.
Both drivers were fined $1,036 and given five points for exceeding the speed limit by more than 30 km/h.
Operation Furious runs from Monday 17 June to Thursday 20 June, targeting speeding and dangerous drivers on the Hume Highway from Sydney to Albury on the Victorian border.
Victoria Police is also running a similar operation from the border town of Wodonga to Melbourne, but is calling its crackdown by a less exciting name: Operation Hamilton.
More than 180 NSW Traffic and Highway Patrol officers will be deployed north of the border in marked and unmarked vehicles, carrying out both stationary and random speed checks.
In the first 24 hours of Operation Furious, NSW officers pulled over 104 speeding drivers and conducted 349 random breath tests (with one positive result) and 79 random drug tests (with five positive results).
“We know that more than 21 thousand drivers use this section every day. Since June 2023, there have been more than 350 major collisions on the Hume Freeway, resulting in the loss of 7 lives,” said South West Motorway and Traffic Patrol Commander, Superintendent Rob Toynton.
“We make no apologies for targeting drivers who drive dangerously and put themselves – and more importantly – other road users at risk.
“We remind motorists to drive within the conditions, have a plan B if you drink, obey the speed limit, wear a seat belt and not take unnecessary risks because everyone deserves to get to their destination safely.”
The Hume Highway, sections of which are called the Hume Highway or the Hume Highway, stretches 840 km between Melbourne in the south-west and Sydney in the north-east.
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