Victoria's top traffic cop gets pinged
Three demerit points and $245Ken Lay, the very visible face of Victoria's aggressive and uncompromising road safety campaign, has been snapped by a covert speed camera in a country town doing 10km/h over the designated speed limit.
The offence took place in Tooborac on October 1 last year when the Deputy Commissioner was on his way home from a meeting with his NSW counterparts on the border town of Barham.
He lost three demerit points and was fined $245 for his first driving offence in al most 35 years on the roads.
Mr Lay told the Herald Sun newspaper that he had let himself down -- as well as Chief Commissioner Simon Overland, other colleagues, road safety partners including the Transport Accident Commission, and the community.
"I was silly," he said. "I made a blue. I made a mistake. But this is what the speed camera system is all about -- catching people doing the wrong thing.
"The system has worked on this occasion. I wasn't concentrating and paid a penalty as a result.
"It's uncomfortable for me. The deputy commissioner in charge of road policing shouldn't be booked.
"It's embarrassing. I've worked hard to raise the profile of road safety. I know why people die on our roads. Here is an example of how you can get it wrong. No one is more aware of that than I am."
Fair enough, we feel his embarrassment - but to then suggest he was very lucky he didn't drift into a tree is probably dipping a little too far into the hyperbole jar.
Meanwhile, in other Victoria police news, a female senior constable on her way to work has been charged with dangerous driving over the death of a motorcyclist in Woodend, 80km north-west of Melbourne, last year.
According to The Age newsppaer, the 33-year-old has been charged by the Major Collision Investigation Unit.
The 31-year-old man died after being struck by a car on Black Forest Drive in Woodend around 5.45am on April 20.
She was said to be off-duty at the time of the collision. The woman will appear at the Bendigo Magistrates Court for a filing hearing on January 21.
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