NSW police baffled after high toll weekend

Eight deaths, 320 major crashes and more than 4300 speeding infringements have left police baffled by driver behaviour on NSW roads across the Anzac Day long weekend.

Officers also charged 244 people with drink-driving and issued a further 6440 notices for infringements including mobile phone, helmet and registration offences between 12:01am on Friday and 11:59pm on Monday.

Double the number of people were killed during the high-visibility road blitz, Operation Go Slow, compared to a similar operation across the 2014 April long weekend.

Traffic and Highway Patrol Commander, Assistant Commissioner John Hartley, says he is dismayed by the results and the high number of young drivers and P-platers caught speeding.

"Their inexperience at driving heightens the risk of serious injury and death to all road users," he said.

"No one wants to see another weekend with eight people dead on our roads.

"To see an increase in the number of people speeding is baffling."

A 19-year-old suspended learner driver was charged with drink-driving after returning a reading of 0.103 in Tamworth on Sunday night, while a 28-year-old male driver was detected travelling double the speed limit along the highway in Blaxland on Monday morning, with a breath analysis reading of 0.149.

His licence was suspended and he was issued with a court attendance notice.

Officers also twice pursued a 36-year-old man allegedly driving 100km/h in a 50km/h zone in Parramatta about 5pm on Monday, with checks revealing he was already disqualified from driving until 2027.

The man, who was arrested after fleeing on foot, was refused bail and is due before Parramatta Local Court on Tuesday.

The weekend deaths have taken the state's road toll to 126, 27 more than the same time last year.