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18 June 2025
“Fatal combination” – Magistrate’s plea to 170km/h driver

A LOCAL magistrate has made a desperate plea to young speeding drivers amid a statewide surge in road trauma this year.

While sentencing a 25-year-old Tatong man at the Wangaratta Magistrates’ Court on Monday for driving at 170km/h at Markwood on 28 February this year, Magistrate Victoria Campbell said she had heard far too many incidents of drivers reaching high speeds on country roads so far i...

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