Excessive speeding detections have spiked in Tasmania.
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Police are nabbing an average of more than four drivers per day 30 kilometres or more above speed limits.
Tasmania Police reported 392 such offences were detected statewide in the first three months of the financial year, well up from 327 in the corresponding period a year earlier.
The spike was due to significant increases in the police Western District (from 73 to 114) and Southern District (159 to 190).
The number of such offences detected fell from 91 to 85 in the Northern District.
A further 5500 drivers across the state - nearly 60 per day on average - were detected exceeding speed limits by between 15 and 29 kilometres per hour.
Inspector Michelle Plumpton said speeding was one of the "fatal five" contributing factors to road deaths and serious crashes.
"As well as increasing the likelihood of crashes, we know that speeding also increases the severity of resulting injuries," she said.
"The faster you go, the worse the outcome.
"We need drivers to realise that the more you increase your speed, the less chance you will survive a crash."
She said drivers who exceeded the speed limit were unnecessarily putting themselves and other road users at risk.
Police recorded 470 seatbelt compliance offences in the three-month period, again with increases in the Western and Southern districts and a fall in the Northern District.
The statewide total was up from 388 in the corresponding period a year earlier.
Total offences of all types increased in September, but financial year to date totals remained below last year's July-September totals in all three police districts.
September offences totalled 2231, up from 1981 in August and the most in a month since May.
Offences for the three-month period statewide dropped from 6733 to 6366.
Offences decreased in the Hobart, Glenorchy, Bridgewater, Launceston, St Helens, Burnie and Devonport police divisions.
They increased in the Kingston, South-East, North-East, Deloraine and Central West divisions.
Despite its offence total in the three-month period falling from 1744 to 1633, Launceston retained its status as crime capital, with the highest annual offence rate of 242 per 10,000 residents.
Hobart (164) and Glenorchy (136) followed.
Devonport (122), Central West (110) and Burnie (109) had lower offence rates.
Police recorded 133 of what they classified as serious crimes statewide in the three-month period, up from 120.
They were most common in the Launceston (26), Bridgewater (24) and South-East (20) divisions.
Due to relative population size, Bridgewater had a significantly higher serious crime rate per 10,000 residents than the other police divisions.