Police and Emergencies

  • Crossings plan for main street

    TRAFFIC jams in central Colac could become common under a Colac Otway Shire Council plan for six Murray Street pedestrian crossings and 40kmh speed limits.

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  • Lower speed limits on Great Ocean Road

    AUTHORITIES have permanently reduced speed limits by 10 kilometres an hour through Great Ocean Road towns.

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  • Tourists’ car catches fire

    TWO tourists missed seeing the sun rise over the Twelve Apostles after their car caught fire at Winchelsea.

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  • Carpark crash cleans up four cars

    AN elderly Colac woman was uninjured when she lost control of her car in a city carpark, damaging four other vehicles.

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  • Police hunt daylight burglars

    POLICE are hunting two men who tried to break into a Colac motorcycle shop in an attempted daylight burglary yesterday.

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  • Farm shop thieves strike again

    THIEVES have stolen $10,000 worth of cattle drench in a third burglary on a Colac West rural business this month.

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  • Police ready for festival crowd

    APOLLO Bay police say they are prepared for thousands of people to converge on the coastal town for its annual music festival this weekend.

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  • Masked, armed men invade home and terrorise family

    POLICE are hunting masked bandits who terrorised a Colac district family with baseball bats and a machete in a brazen aggravated burglary.

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