Motoring infringements over holiday weekends

Pilbara police are pleased with the region's fatality-free Easter and Anzac holiday period, but Pilbara motorists were issued with hundreds of speeding infringements.

Police from Onslow to Marble Bar issued 1622 infringements for speed offences and stopped 956 vehicles for random breath tests.

There were 26 people caught not wearing a seatbelt, 10 drink driving offences, and 13 vehicles impounded, three of them for hooning offences.

A 48-year-old Karratha woman had her car impounded after she was allegedly detected driving at 159km/h in a 110km/h zone near Cleaverville.

She was also summonsed to Karratha Court on a charge of reckless driving.

Last week was almost marred with tragedy for a 36-year-old man driving from Port Hedland to Newman on the Great Northern Highway, near Karijini National Park, when his Toyota Hilux collided with a triple road train at about 8am last Tuesday.

The man was trapped inside the mangled wreckage for several hours before he could be freed.

The crash happened about 50km north of Auski Roadhouse and 50km south of the Hillside Woodstock Road and forced the closure of the highway in both directions.

South Hedland police Senior Constable Clarke, who investigated the crash scene last week, said if it wasn't for the truck driver's quick reaction time, police would have been dealing with a fatality.

In Karratha Operation Early Bird 7, a speed camera operation, ran from April 16 to 19.

Pilbara Traffic's acting Sergeant Scott Clugston said 4.5 per cent of vehicles monitored were speeding and caught by the camera.