Phase two of an an intense traffic enforcement operation will kick off in the Orana region this week following a disastrous weekend on NSW roads.
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Police will be out in numbers during Operation West Force which commences at midnight this Saturday, April 1.
The three-day operation will be conducted in the western regions of NSW and is designed to combat the incidence of road trauma. Police will target irresponsible drivers for speeding, drink driving, fatigue, bad behaviour, as-well as any other offences that maybe detected.
Inspector Dan Skelly from the Orana Local Area Command said over recent times in NSW there has been an extraordinary amount of serious road crashes, some claiming lives.
It's time for all road users to realise that road safety is literally in their hands.
- Inspector Dan Skelly
He said Operation West Force is one of the strategies being used by NSWPF to reduce road tolls towards zero.
"NSW Police are serious about driving road trauma stats towards zero,” Inspector Skelly said.
“For every person that loses their life to road trauma another seven people, on average, are directly affected.
“We often think of road trauma as a number, we need to concentrate on the reality.
“This number represents sons, daughters, mums, dads, brothers, sisters, loved ones, that are left behind, emotionally traumatised.”
Inspector Kelly said the trauma associated with accidents stems further than immediate friends and family of victims.
“We also need to think of the toll road trauma takes on our emergency service workers that attend these terrible scenes,” he said.
“It's time for all road users to realise that road safety is literally in their hands."
Phase two of the task force comes in the wake of a devastating weekend on roads around the state, with six people killed and multiple others injured.
Bathurst was rocked by this toll as a 50-year-old woman died and a 51-year-old man was seriously injured in a motorcycle crash.
The death toll continued to rise as a three-year-old girl killed when hit by a truck in South Grafton on Sunday morning. Two teenagers were also killed after their vehicle crashed into a power pole and was engulfed in flames in Matraville in Sydney's east.
A 51-year-old man died at the scene of a motorcycle crash on the Oxley Highway at Mt Seaview, and a 27-year-old woman killed in a single-vehicle accident at Wee Waa.
Operation West Force will conclude on April 3.
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