Milton has been among the key suburbs targeted in a large-scale police operation aimed at improving road safety across Brisbane during the school holidays.
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With thousands of families travelling over the break, police launched one of their biggest traffic enforcement campaigns in years, focusing on areas including Milton, Woolloongabba, Kangaroo Point, Kedron, and South Brisbane. The goal was to curb dangerous driving and prevent serious crashes as traffic volumes increased.
In Milton and surrounding suburbs, officers from highway patrol and general duties teams set up both marked and unmarked enforcement sites, conducting random breath and drug tests as part of a coordinated effort to address the so-called “Fatal Five” — speeding, fatigue, drink and drug driving, distraction, and failing to wear seatbelts.
Over the course of the campaign, which spanned from late June into early July, police across Brisbane conducted 6,731 random breath tests (RBTs) and 454 random drug tests (RDTs). A total of 39 drivers were allegedly caught under the influence — 18 for alcohol and 21 for drugs.
Milton was just one of over 30 suburbs covered in the blitz, with other enforcement zones established in Ascot, Albion, New Farm, Mount Gravatt East, Bracken Ridge, and Bellbowrie, among others.
The crackdown also led to 116 traffic infringement notices, six disqualified and six unlicensed drivers caught, and multiple charges laid for unregistered and uninsured vehicles.
Police say the operation was part of a wider strategy to reduce the number of lives lost on Brisbane roads. This year, Brisbane’s north has recorded a marked improvement in road fatality statistics, with just six deaths reported so far compared to 18 in the same period last year.
Despite the overall drop, officers stress that more work needs to be done, especially in high-traffic areas like Milton, where local roads often carry both commuter and event-related traffic.
Police also responded to several serious incidents during the holidays. These included a crash in Mount Coot-tha involving a driver with a blood alcohol reading of 0.156, and another in Mount Ommaney where a driver allegedly had an alcohol level almost three times the legal limit.
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Authorities say proactive patrols and targeted operations will continue across Milton and the broader Brisbane region in the coming weeks, as police maintain efforts to make the roads safer for all motorists.
Published 15-July-2025
