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Australian police crack down on misbehaving motorists
Feb 16, 2012, 10:59 GMT
Sydney - A blitz on motorists who eat their breakfast, shave, read the paper or use mobile phones while thundering down the highway is changing drivers' behaviour in south-eastern Australia, police said Thursday.
'It's a huge concern,' highway patrol chief Inspector Steve Blair said. 'We've all seen it - putting on make-up, eating cereal, texting - and it's just a total disregard for other motorists.'
Thirty highway patrol officers have been cruising the freeways and pulling over motorists whose attention is not entirely on their driving.
'We're going back to the past where police were present in marked cars,' said Blair, a senior officer with the New South Wales Police Force.
One of the worst offenders, a parishioner speeding to church on a Sunday, was booked by Blair himself.
'He's doing 80 kilometres an hour, steering with his knees and having a shave with an electric shaver.'
Blair said Operation Freeflow was already showing results.
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