A rider travelling nearly three times over the speed limit was lucky to escape injury after he came off his bike in Diggers Rest Thursday afternoon.
The 32-year-old, who was travelling with a crucifix on his bike for protection, was seen weaving through traffic, splitting lanes and overtaking in the emergency lane of the Calder Freeway Thursday afternoon.
Brimbank Highway Patrol detected the Avondale Heights rider travelling 123km/h in the 80km/h zone of the Calder before he failed to stop for police and continued to ride off.
He was then detected travelling 137km/h in a 50km/h zone in a residential street of Diggers Rest.
A short time later the rider was found to have lost control and crashed.
It's believed he was travelling through a roundabout before he ended up off the bike and on a medium strip, miraculously without injury.
Brimbank Highway Patrol Sergeant Andy Oakley said the man started praying and thanking God for his survival.
"He won't be praying to that cross for a while as his bike has been impounded," Sgt Oakley said.
"There's no doubt this man was very lucky; sadly, and all too often crashes such as this and with the driving behaviour we saw the rider would have been taken off to hospital if not worse.
"Someone may have just been looking out for him yesterday to keep him safe."
It is expected he will be charged with speed and manner dangerous, riding without a licence, unregistered, and failing to stop for police along with other traffic matters.
Whilst committing the offences, the rider was found to be in breach of the directions issued by the Chief Health Officer, and he was issued a $1652 penalty notice.
The directions by the Chief Health Officer, under the State of Emergency declared in Victoria, have been enacted to help stop the spread of Coronavirus.
This impound forms part of Operation Nexus, a five-day focus on keeping our community safe on the roads during the Easter long weekend.
The state-wide operation aims to reduce road trauma, including the number of lives lost and injuries on our roads.
During this time motorists can expect to be breath tested and drug tested, have their vehicles scanned and be checked for speeding.
The operation involves all available personnel including local road policing units, general duties, other operational policing units and centralised resources from Road Policing Command.
The operation started at 12.01am on Thursday 9 April and concludes at 11.59pm on Monday 13 April
