The intercept was one of the highlights of last weekend's Victoria Police Operation Verat.

A Warrnambool police highway patrol unit spokesman said officers were travelling east along Foxhow Road in an unmarked BMW station wagon when they were passed.

"We were watching him for a bit, as he closed on us from behind, and just sat there as he whizzed past doing 120," he said.

"OK, we thought, that'll do, but he wasn't done yet. He decided that 120km/h was still way too slow, so continued to accelerate to 132km/h at which point we thought, that'll definitely do and intercepted him."

The officer said the school teacher was travelling with his wife and both were irritated that the driver would be without his licence for three months.

"They indicated that the suspension was very inconvenient and he would have to take a break from teaching for that period," the police officer said.

"He asked if there was anyway he could pay more money and not do the suspension. He was informed that was not an option."

The HWP member said that while travelling west back to Mortlake on the Hamilton Highway another car was detected heading east at 116km/h.

"We did a U-turn, only to be beaten to the punch by a marked Geelong HWP vehicle that overtook us, while we were doing our U-turn," he said.

"They had that had just detected the same car doing 138km/h. The driver was a 35-year-old man."

Another car was clocked doing 116km/h on the Hamilton Highway heading towards Melbourne.

"The driver was an unlicensed 24-year-old P-plater from the western suburbs of Melbourne," he said.

"Surprisingly, the owner of the car, his partner, who had a full licence, was sitting next to him. There was also a child in the car.

"The owner was served with a notice to surrender the car to the Werribee police station on August 12 for a month at a cost in excess of $1200 for impoundment fees."

The driver said it was quiet country road "so I thought I'd have a drive".

Police are considering whether to charge the owner with permitting an unlicensed person to drive.

Warrnambool HWP members were on Monday heading to deliver a summons to a 34-year-old Dennington man relating to an immediate loss of his driver's licence.

"We saw his 32-year-old wife driving out of the Warrnambool court complex," the officer said.

"She is a suspended driver and was intercepted. She said she was driving to the shops, a distance of 300 metres.

"She also tested positive to methamphetamine and was charged with that offence. The car, which was bought only three weeks ago, is being impound for a month at a cost of $1130," he said.

Monday: Ten motorists lost their drivers licences at the weekend after being caught at more than 25km/h over the speed limit.

South-west police road safety adviser Acting Senior Sergeant Dean Greenwood said it was pleasing that there were no fatal or serious injury accidents during Operation Verat.

A more than 50 percent jump in road fatalities from last year prompted the three-day operation.

Operation Verat focused on the Hamilton Highway and Glenelg Highway across four western police regions.

There have been 10 deaths on south-west roads this year compared to eight for all of 2018.

Acting Senior Sergeant Greenwood said there were 149 offences detected, including the 10 drivers at more than 25 km/h above the posted speed limit.

"Those 10 offences involve an immediate loss of licence for drivers," he said.

"The 13 unregistered vehicles detected can be attributed to the new mobile automatic number plate recognition system."

The road safety adviser said there were 103 other speeding offences, at less than 25km/h over the limit.

He said one vehicle was impounded and two drug impaired driving picked up.

"Overall it's very disappointing," he said.

"There's a lot of people not hearing the road safety message at all."

Acting Senior Sergeant Greenwood said a double fatality at Carranballac and triple fatality at Cressy should have rammed home the safety message to south-west residents in the past couple of months.

"We know there is an over representation in trauma involving high speed on rural roads," he said.

"But, we've just seen 113 people detected who were willing to exceed the speed limit in just three days. That's incredibly disappointing.

"We make no apologies for issuing penalty notices to those still willing to exceed the speed limit," he said.

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