About this season
Highway Patrol follows members of the Victoria Police Highway Patrol as they intercept traffic and other criminal offenders on major highways in Victoria, Australia.
Episodes (12)
1. Inches from Death
Aired 1 May 2013 • 20 min
Senior Constable Dean Pickering attempts to help at the scene of a serious crash where two kids have stolen a car and later wrapped the car around a tree. A driver is stopped in Epping for driving an unregistered car.
2. Spiked Pursuit
Aired 8 May 2013 • 21 min
The police are desperately trying to apprehend a female drink driver who has crashed a booze bus site. The speeding motorist just won't stop and with pursuing police unable to stop her, they decide to throw down stop sticks which should puncture all the offenders' car tyres. But it's a difficult and dangerous task on a dark, wet busy motorway.
3. Knife Attack
Aired 12 May 2013 • 22 min
A member of the public is attacked by a man with a knife, while returning home from work. The offender leads officers on a frantic foot chase through the streets of Maribyrnong.
4. Street Revolt
Aired 26 May 2013 • 21 min
Alcohol and testosterone can be an explosive combination and sure enough, things get well out of hand when a group of men gather to mourn their dead mate. Two young men flaunt their illegally modified muscle car.
5. Blackout in Bendigo
Aired 2 June 2013 • 21 min
When a sergeant stops a car, his partner notices a weapon in the car. Two senior constables attempt to deal with a speeding car with bald tyres and a toddler sitting in the passenger footwell.
6. Australia's Angriest Man
Aired 16 June 2013 • 21 min
A traffic cop is given a hard time but after Senior Constable Russell Warner stops a driver, he gets a reaction like none other he's seen before. Senior Constable Jerome Murnane stops a car with a couple of stoned occupants inside.
7. Unrestrained Rage
Aired 8 July 2013 • 21 min
A traffic stop goes horribly wrong after a furious driver tries to attack the police.
8. Dicing With Death
Aired 15 July 2013 • 21 min
Senior Constable Dean Pickering has seen a lot of young men die on the roads so he's enraged when he spots three carloads of teenagers racing each other and even worse, half climbing out of their vehicles at speed. Our best police officers rely on their gut instincts and Leading Senior Constable Mustafa Emin does just that when he spies a suspicious looking vehicle.
9. Drunk And Angry
Aired 4 November 2013 • 20 min
Officers are on the end of a drunken man's anger and police are left to deal with a tempestuous two-year-old who is refusing to obey the law.
10. Car Crash Carnage
Aired 11 November 2013 • 21 min
Officers attend to a car crash with a heavily pregnant victim. Then, Police catch two speedsters simultaneously and the cars they're driving have to be seen to be believed.
11. Smash And Dash
Aired 18 November 2013 • 21 min
A man ends up leaving the scene of a crash and after police officers manage to find him, it becomes obvious why he wanted to get away. The police manage to spot a car with stolen plates on it.
12. Episode 12
Aired 20 November 2013