Vic Police happy with toll, not drivers

Victoria has recorded its lowest Easter road toll in a decade with only one death, but police say luck as much as good planning kept the figure down.

Rather than praise motorists for the minimal loss of life, police said they were disappointed with high rates of drink-driving and speeding among nearly 13,000 driving offences detected between Good Friday and Easter Monday.

The state's only fatality was a woman passenger in a car that hit a tree on the Great Ocean Road on Saturday afternoon.

Another woman is on life support after she was hit by a motorbike, alleged to have been speeding.

Nationally, 15 died on the roads over Easter, including six in NSW and five in Queensland.

There were four Easter road deaths in Victoria last year and nine in 2007, but working out exactly why the figure had dropped was an "imprecise science", police Superintendent Kevin Casey told reporters on Tuesday.

"It is a shared responsibility: the road toll is due in part to the efforts of police that are out there influencing driver behaviour," Supt Casey said.

"We can't be everywhere all the time so we rely on the public to do the right thing ... those people that drove responsibly should be commended and we are pleased for them."

Supt Casey said he believed the road toll over Easter and in general had dropped because police used information better.

"We are focussed very closely on our intelligence information where the trouble hot spots might be and where people are prone to breaking the law," he said.

"The tactics change from location to location, depending on what's collated, and we put most emphasis and impact on places most likely to have trauma."

A police road fatalities map showing where deaths have occurred around the state has been available to the public on the force's website since last year.

The worst areas for deaths and general breaches of the law by motorists are in the Yarra Ranges, east of Melbourne, the Great Ocean Road and the major arterials into Melbourne with speed limits around 80km/h.

Over Easter, more than 5,600 police - about half the entire force - were kept busiest in the Melbourne CBD, Moreland in Melbourne's north, Dandenong in the south and the regional areas of Bendigo and Benalla.

There were 632 drink-driving offences from nearly 156,000 breath tests, 704 unlicensed drivers were detected, more than 5,000 speeding offences, 696 people were caught not wearing seatbelts and 762 people were talking on their mobile phone while driving.

In the worst speeding offences, two drivers were clocked at about 200km/h, including a Glen Waverley man, 23, booked riding his Yamaha motorbike at 235km/h in a 100km/h speed zone.

Supt Casey declined to comment on whether double demerit points should be introduced in Victoria for holiday road offences.

He backed the measure on Monday but it was rejected by the state government.