Acting Inspector Craig Fox, of Northern Road and Public Order Safety, said police aimed to ensure motorists ‘‘arrived alive’’ at their destinations over the holiday break.

The annual nationwide road safety campaign Crossroads will kicked off at 12am this morning and runs until Monday.

Northern motorists can expect a greater police presence on the Bass and Midland highways and rural roads.

Police will be conducting random breath tests, targeted drug tests, speed detection, road patrols and vehicle checks.

‘‘We will be targeting unsafe and dangerous driving behaviour, which includes speeding, drunk and drug driving, seat belt offences and fatigue,’’ Acting Inspector Fox said.

‘‘If there’s inclement weather then people should drive to the conditions and take the extra five or 10 minutes to arrive safely.’’

There have been 11 fatalities and 86 serious crashes on state roads this year. There were seven serious crashes and one fatality over the Easter period last year.

The ‘fatal five’ contributors to road deaths and serious injury crashes are:

● Speeding.

● Failure to wear seatbelts.

● Alcohol and drugs.

● Distraction.

● Fatigue.

Police Commissioner Darren Hine said Tasmanians shouldn’t accept that road deaths are inevitable.

‘‘The reality is that many of them are avoidable,’’ he said.

‘‘Thousands of Tasmanians will take to the roads to visit family and friends this Easter and we want everyone to arrive alive. It shouldn’t be too much to ask.’’

Over the past five years, 41 per cent of deaths and injuries have occurred in 100km/h zones and usually on rural roads.

State Emergency Service volunteers will be staffing ‘‘Take a Break’’ stations around the state on Easter Monday at:

● St Peters Pass on the Midland Highway in the South.

● The Sidling Lookout on the Tasman Highway in the North-East.

● Parramatta Creek on the Bass Highway in the North.

● Fossey River on the Murchison Highway in the North-West.

● The Franklin River Nature Trail on the Lyell Highway in the South-West.