A horror weekend has sent Queensland's road toll past the 2015 mark, with the notorious Christmas and New Year period still to come.

As of Monday, 235 people had perished on the state's roads this year — two more than the 2015 death toll.

It came as three motorcyclists, two pedestrians, one truck driver and one car driver lost their lives over the weekend.

Police also caught a driver north of Gympie who was allegedly travelling at 143 kilometres an hour in a 100kph zone.

Queensland Police Service Assistant Commissioner Mike Keating said some motorists' behaviour was "beyond reasonable explanation".

"Some people think that the irrefutable laws of physics don't apply to them. They do," he said.

"They will die if they have a crash on a motorbike doing 150kph and they hit a fixed object it is highly likely that they will die."

Assistant Commissioner Keating said officers had spent about 35,000 hours this month focusing on road safety activity and had breath-tested 75,000 people.

He said December 23, December 28 and January 8 would be the key dates when police would be out in force during the holiday period road blitz.

"We have chosen those dates quite specifically. We've looked at trends and issues over longer periods of time, and we will have a really highly strung focus towards speeding and promoting the importance of compliance with speed right across our road network," he said.

"I'm expecting that we will see many hundreds of speed detection devices deployed on our roads during selected times on each of those three days."

Rogue joggers adding to death toll

Assistant Commissioner Keating also hit out at runners who ignore the road rules, saying they were partially to blame for an increase in pedestrian deaths this year.

Pedestrian deaths have risen to 34 this year — 11 more than at the same time in 2015.

Assistant Commissioner Mike Keating said some people were ignoring pedestrian crossings.

"People who are exercising in the mornings or in the evenings are not complying with basic road safety standards," he said.

"They're more interested in their morning exercise activities. We have pedestrian crossings that are there for a purpose."