The Cootamundra LAC is committed to reducing trauma on our roads and being intrusive and proactive about targeting of local roads, especially the Lachlan Valley Way, within the Command.

The Lachlan Valley Way is a busy stretch of road that is used by locals and interstate travellers and those travelling through to other major townships from the Hume Highway.

The road has a large number of areas where there is no overtaking and Police believe that frustration at getting caught behind slower moving vehicles leads to dangerous driving.

The accidents seem to happen mostly on the weekends in the mid afternoon to evening periods.

To put the amount of time the LAC has spent on the Lachlan Valley Way into perspective, during the month of August the Highway Patrol has conducted over 370 single hours of patrols within the LAC, with the Lachlan Valley Way taking about 50 of those hours.

The message from the LAC is to obey the road rules, drive to the road conditions, be very mindful of fatigue and at the end of the day get to your destination with out putting the lives of yourself, your family and other road users in danger.

The number of speeding offences on the Lachlan Valley Way recently showed that drivers are not doing so and until they do the LAC will continue to patrol the local roads.