POLICE are urging motorists preparing for road trips during Christmas and New Year to take it slow, stop revive survive, and to not drink or drug and drive.
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The statewide police traffic Operation Safe Arrival will start at 12.01am on Friday, December 19, 2014, and end at 11.59pm on Sunday, January 4, 2015.
Double demerits will apply from midnight on Wednesday, December 24.
Senior Constable John Simmons, from the Traffic and Highway Patrol Command, said police would target speeding, drink and drug-driving, fatigue, seatbelts and helmet offences.
"From our statistics, police have realised the major causes of road trauma are these things which is why we target them," he said.
He added that motorists could expect random and roadside breath tests during Operation Safe Arrival and said police would be patrolling the drink-driving "hot spots" and major traffic routes.
