Take two for traffic op POLICE returned for an encore performance at Frankston’s Peninsula Link on Thursday 16 August when Somerville Highway Patrol officers used automatic number plate recognition on passing vehicles at Peninsula Link. Three suspended drivers, two disqualified drivers, 10 unregistered vehicles, one drug driver and one vehicle with false number plates were caught in the police dragnet dubbed Operation Hollywood. Two cars were impounded and towed away for 30 days since the drivers had prior convictions for the same offence. Thirteen motorists were also intercepted and fined $282 for “overtaking a police vehicle or emergency vehicle with flashing red or blue lights while operating at a speed greater than 40kph”. One speeding incident involved a MICA Ambulance stopped at the side of the road due to a medical emergency with a patient being transported. “Fair warning was given that we’d be enforcing this offence strenuously,” Acting Senior Sergeant Peter Martin said. “My members are continually getting into and out of vehicles at these locations.” Many motorists don’t realise just how dangerous it is to be driving past an emergency worker when there is literally half a metre or less between the vehicle and the emergency worker.
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Helping hands: Mayor Colin Hampton with recipients of Frankston Charitable Grants Program money. Picture: Supplied
Charity begins ‘at home’ Slow down: Motorists must observe reduced speed limit when passing emergency services vehicles parked roadside. Picture: Gary Sissons
“A car travelling at 100 kmh travels 28 metres in just one second. Sometimes even the wind rush from a passing car puts emergency workers at risk. The law has been in for well over 12 months but even if it wasn’t a law, it’s just common sense not to endanger someone on the roadside.” See vicroads.vic.gov.au online for the new 40kph law when passing emergency vehicles.
MORE than $35,000 is on its way to charities thanks to the Frankston Charitable Grants Program. Frankston mayor Cr Colin Hampton said the grants are vital for many charities in the municipality and are used to expand services, upgrade equipment or ensure services can continue to be delivered to the community. “Over the past 9 years, the Charitable Fund Grants Program has made a real positive impact to many local charities, who with limited funds and resources deliver vital support to many in our community,” Cr Hampton said. “It is a real honour to meet the inspiring faces behind these local charities, and to hear how these grants will make a difference in the lives of the people they work with.” Grants were given to: n Operation Larder Inc ($7954)
Cancer Patients Foundation Limited ($5000) Micare Ltd ($4000) Mums Supporting Mums ($4961) Groomed to Go ($5000) Children Australia ($1400) Ardoch Youth Foundation ($5000) the Australia Red Cross Society’s trauma teddy and calico doll programs ($660) n The Shorehouse Community Group Inc ($1039) The Frankston Charitable Fund was established by a deed of gift between the Melbourne Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation and Frankston Council in 2009. It a perpetual fund, where the interest in dividends provides an annual grants program to charities operating in Frankston City. See frankston.vic.gov.au online for more information about the Charitable Fund Grants program. n n n n n n n
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