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Three drivers have been issued with traffic infringement notices and will face charges after allegedly being caught drug driving and speeding in separate incidents.
About 3.30pm on Saturday 1 February, police were conducting a speed enforcement operation along Canberra Avenue in Griffith when they detected a silver Volkswagen Golf travelling at 81km/h in a 60km/h area.
Police directed the driver to pull over and checks revealed her licence was suspended in November 2024.
The 46-year-old woman was subject to a roadside drug test which returned a positive result for cocaine.
In a second incident, at about 10pm on Tuesday (4 February 2025), police stopped a silver Saab 9-3 that was detected travelling at 104km/h in an 80km/h zone along Drakeford Drive in Kambah.
The learner driver was subject to a roadside drug test which returned a positive result for a prescribed drug.
The 21-year-old male driver was issued traffic infringement notices for speeding, being an unaccompanied learner driver, driving on a suspended licence, and failing to display L plates.
This morning (Tuesday, 11 February 2025), police detected a third driver travelling at 53km/h in a school zone.
The driver, a 24-year-old man, was stopped and police identified his licence was suspended.
He was subject to a roadside drug test, which returned a positive result to cannabis.
The suspended driver was issued with a traffic infringement notice for speeding and failing to update his address.
The three drivers are expected to be charged with drug driving offences and will face court at a later date.