Police have detected and charged a driver who was allegedly travelling at more than twice the speed limit when he was detected in a school zone at Kingsgrove earlier today. Shortly before 9am today (Friday 23 May 2014), Traffic & Highway Patrol Command Officers from Hurstville were performing speed enforcement duties on Stoney Creek Road at Kingsgrove, near a high school. The officers will allege that they detected a 2014 Ford Falcon XRT6 utility that was checked travelling at 89kph in the 40kph school zone. The driver, a 25-year-old Hurstville man was stopped in Smiths Avenue and issued with an infringement notice for exceeding the speed by more than 45kph. That infringement notice has a penalty of $2341 and the man’s licence was also suspended for six months. Acting Assistant Commissioner Stuart Smith, Traffic and Highway Patrol Commander said that despite recent events in school zones and resultant media coverage some drivers needed to pay more attention. “Hopefully this driver has learnt a valuable and what will be a costly lesson. “At that time of the morning, with students, parents, teachers and support staff arriving at school any speed related crash would have most certainly been significant. “With over 4200 offences issued so far this year for offences in school zones, road users need to get the message that if they continue to run the risk to themselves, school children and other road users, that the Traffic and Highway patrol officers will take the necessary action to prevent them from repeating such poor selfish driver behaviour. “We need to do all we can to protect our children going to and from school as do other road users,” Acting Assistant Commissioner Smith said. Police are urging anyone with information about this incident to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or use the Crime Stoppers online reporting page: https://www1.police.nsw.gov.au/. Information you provide will be treated in the strictest of confidence. We remind people they should not report crime information via our Facebook and Twitter pages.
Posted on: Fri, 23 May 2014 05:06:26 +0000
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