Northland's Inspector Wayne Ewers is concerned about the number of speeding drivers caught in Northland last week. Photo / Tania Whyte
A motorist clocked doing 152km/h in an 80km/h zone was among more than 500 infringement notices issued in just one week by Northland police for a raft of offences, including 176 for speeding.
On top of the list - 357 - were an assortment of breaches such as no warrant
of fitness or licence label and learner licence breaches, followed by 176 speeding tickets and nine for not wearing a seat belt.
Highway patrol officers issued 542 tickets from Monday to Sunday last week, excluding 17 drink drivers caught over the weekend.
Northland's top traffic officer, Inspector Wayne Ewers, said his officers were still catching between 12 and 20 drink drivers every weekend which was not a good total.
On the overall number of tickets issued, Mr Ewers said it was probably a little higher than usual, but it showed extra rostered police were on duty in the days leading up to and including the long Easter Weekend. "The number of driving complaints had us stopping suspect vehicles and often we'd detect more than one breach per vehicle," he said.
