Authorities have stopped five people from Melbourne coronavirus hotspots who attempted to drive over the NSW-Victoria border, which shut at midnight.
Bottom line:
- Anybody caught lying on their application to go into NSW could be fined $4,000
- People from Victoria discovered to be in NSW illegally face $11,000 fines or six months in jail
- There is no date for the border to be reopened
Officers blocked major roads in between the states at 12: 01 am, just hours after the online system for travel exemptions was launched, and crashed in about 45 minutes as 44,000 people used.
In neighborhoods like Albury-Wodonga, traffic was banked up, however still moving, as lots of NSW Policeman lined bridges over the Murray River to check chauffeurs attempting to cross the border.
From today, anyone from Victoria wishing to enter NSW must make an application for an authorization, as issue grows about record varieties of new COVID-19 infections in Melbourne.
” There’s had to do with five automobiles stopped and reversed due to the fact that the chauffeurs are from postcodes that remain in those hotzones in urban Melbourne,” NSW Authorities Commissioner Mick Fuller stated.
As the sun increased over the Lincoln Causeway, traffic was at a standstill while policeman scrutinised each driver.
It’s one of 2 main checkpoints between Albury and Wodonga.
New speed limitations of 40 kph were imposed for large freight trucks as they approached the other primary border crossing– the Hume Highw