Operation Safe Arrival, which started at 12.01am on Friday, December 19 and ended on Sunday night, ran a day longer than the previous year but with one fewer death recorded in NSW.

The Christmas/New Year road toll in NSW was 10, compared with 11 for Operation Safe Arrival 2013/2014.

Western Region roads had remained fatality-free during the operation, although a motorcyclist had died following a crash in the Spring Ridge State Forest on Saturday morning, Western Region Highway Patrol Acting Inspector Peter McMenamin said.

"With the right sort of advertisement and education and the high profile approach from police and Roads and Maritime Services and other agencies we've achieved significant results," Acting Inspector McMenamin said.

"Even though double demerit point penalties are no longer in place, we'll maintain a high presence on the roads and keep the momentum going to try to get everyone home safely before the end of the school holidays."

In the Western Region, there had been just under 72,500 random breath tests performed during Operation Safe Arrival, about 5000 of those in the Orana Local Area Command (LAC) region.

Of the 1613 speeding tickets issued in the Western Region, 197 were handed out in Orana, while the Orana region accounted for 41 of the 192 seatbelt infringements issued in the Western Region.

In the Western Region there were some 1500 infringements for all other traffic offences (including mobile phone use, not obeying road signs and vehicle non-compliance), 216 of those in Orana LAC.

Across NSW, police had performed more than a quarter of a million more random breath tests during this year's Operation Safe Arrival compared with the same time last year.

Traffic and Highway Patrol Command Assistant Commissioner John Hartley said statewide police charged 1273 people with drink driving offences compared with 1209 for the 2013/2014 operation.

By the end of this year's operation, police had detected 14,422 people travelling above the speed limit, an increase of 2878 on the 2013/14 operation.

During Safe Arrival 2014/2015, 1881 people were detected not wearing their seatbelts or using occupant restraints properly, compared with 1454 for Safe Arrival 2013/2014. In 2014, 29 people died in crashes while not wearing their seatbelt, compared with 20 in 2013.

Assistant Commissioner Hartley said more than a generation had grown up with compulsory seatbelt laws and it had been proven time and again proper use of seatbelts and occupant restraints saved people from being seriously injured or killed in crashes.

"We teach our children to protect themselves in a car by making sure they have their seatbelt on or are in the correct car seat," he said.

"It's unfortunate we have had more than 1800 people who did not want to give themselves that same protection during Christmas and New Year," he said.