Operation Bathurst 2025 road safety
Tuesday, 14 October 2025 10:44:21 AM
NSW Police will maintain a presence throughout Bathurst and surrounding suburbs to ensure road safety as the last of the racegoers make their way home across the western region.
Operation Bathurst 2025 commenced on Thursday (9 October 2025) and concluded at midnight last night (Monday 13 October 2025), with significant police presence on all roads leading to and from Bathurst.
General duties will continue to be supported by Traffic and Highway Patrol officers and targeting speeding, drink and drug driving, mobile phone use and seat-belt offences in and around the event.
Throughout the traffic operation, officers have conducted 6605 random breath tests, 1496 random drug tests and issued 401 traffic infringement notices for speeding in addition to 418 infringement notices for other offences. A total of 20 people were charged for various offences.
Incidents of note:
About 2.45pm on Thursday 9 October 2025, officers attached to Hawkesbury Highway Patrol Command were patrolling the Richmond area, when they stopped a vehicle with alleged cloned plates. The driver, a 28-year-old woman, was subjected to roadside testing which returned an alleged positive result for amphetamine. During a subsequent search of the vehicle, police allegedly located and seized three knives and drugs. She was issued a court attendance notice charged with custody of a knife in a public place, in addition to several traffic infringement notices. She is due to appear before Windsor Local Court on Thursday 6 November 2025.
Just before 6pm on Thursday 9 October 2025, officers attached to Chifley Highway Patrol Command were patrolling the Great Western Highway at Walang, when they allegedly detected a vehicle traveling 150km/h in a 100km sign-posted zone. Police stopped the vehicle and spoke with the driver, a 30-year-old man, who produced a P1 drivers licence. He was subjected to a roadside breath test with returned a positive result. He was issued a court attendance notice for drive with mid-range PCA, in addition to traffic infringement notices for provisional P1 licence holder exceed speed limit by more than 45km/h, and not comply P1 licence condition not display P plates (Class C licence holder). He is due to appear before Bathurst Local Court on Wednesday 26 November 2025.