Tough new laws increase penalties for dangerous drivers
A RECORD number of hoons have had their cars clamped or impounded and now face an increase in the length of time police can block them from their vehicles.
Latest figures provided exclusively to The Advertiser show 5077 cars were clamped or impounded in the 12 months to July.
The record figure is up from 3230 the year before and more than the total number of cars impounded or clamped between 2004 and 2008.
Attorney-General John Rau said he would introduce tough new laws on October 31 to double the period police could impound a car from three months to six.
Police also will be granted powers to clamp a car for a maximum 28 days instead of the current seven as well as force serial hoons to surrender their cars. These changes significantly ramp up penalties for those engaging in this sort of idiotic behaviour,’’ Mr Rau said.
The changes also will make it illegal to interfere with an impounded vehicle or engage in hoon driving on private land.
Police have the power to clamp or impound cars when the drivers commit offences including street racing or burnouts.
Cars can also be seized if a driver causes serious harm or death.
Under the new laws, police will be able to go onto private property without a warrant to seize, clamp or impound a vehicle.
Impounded cars are typically held on police lots and clamped vehicles are kept at the home address of the hoon driver.
More than 11,000 cars have been clamped or impounded since antihoon laws were introduced in 2005
Parliament last week passed new laws that will put street racers in jail for up to three years. A second offence will attract a maximum penalty of five years jail and a minimum loss of licence for three years.
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Now that is really f---ed.Originally Posted by Benboy
Heil the Gestapo!
"The changes also will make it illegal to interfere with an impounded vehicle or engage in hoon driving on private land"
now if a read that right .... does that mean me cutting nuts in MY paddock is now against the law and my paddock basher spec VP can be impounded ? ....
Long Gone Now
pretty much and that is an absolute load of bulls*&t
Long Gone Now
hang on, hang on.... so this effectively means the cops can impound your car for doing burnouts at a racing track or for excessively speeding on a racing track?? errr what?
Banned
That's ####ed.
When is one of our politicians going to be assassinated?
ok this is bullshit ay, i got the VP as a paddock basher so i didn't do my silly shit on the roads ... my been 19 i don't mind kicking it out sideways and having a good old time ... but not on the public roads .... so now in my private property away from people .... its now against the law ..... no wonder ' hoons ' are getting worse .... we got no where to ####ing go !!!!
Banned
#### ill like to see a cop come and tell me what i can do on my property
and if they dont need a warrent dose that mean they can just say were impounding your car oh wait what is this you have drugs here to that is so ####ed it's just another way for them to get on your land
ps some one plz assanate one of these yupy moron know nothing good for nothing except pissing of evry one excpet goody to shoe winging ####wits that make up 1% of australia ####s
Banned
maby all the so called hoons should get together and do a big group burnout in protest outside parliment
im glad i wasn't the only one thinking that =)
Banned
Riiight, because that would help the cause...
Motoring enthusiasts need a govt body to represent them. Something to seperate true enthusiasts from dead set wankers.
Hot rodders have an organisation that has helped them allot over the years.
We could call it our "smoking ceremony"...
Banned
it wouldent work for many reasons but would be cool
soop we know it wouldn't help lol
yeah it would be nice wouldn't it .... it would also be nice to have a government that wasn't full of ####wits trying to gain votes from the crying hearts that think a car on big rims and lowered is a 'hoon'
even my own damn mother calls me a hoon when i go out cruising .... i know im not a hoon .... respect the road and she will respect you back
Banned
Problem is, half these sheeple who crusify "hoons" are hopeless dangerous drivers.
They're just so damned oblivious to whats going on around them they don't know it!
exactly !!!
perfect example - BMW X4 cuts me off and im given the finger and screamed at that im a ######## ? now when im next to the medium strip cruising along minding my buisness and the BMW is a fraction ahead of me puts his blinker on and just decides he wants to be in my lane right then and there .... near takes my frount bar off and puts me up the medium strip ... how am i the ######## .... oh yea im the p-plater in the commodore ... thats right
Banned
If he's in front, you've got to give way. Provided he gives you ample oppotunity, I know it rarely happens. Most peope start moving before the even indicate.
well thats what happened ? like yea there was plenty oh space i would have backed off and let him in, but when his back door is inline with my frount doors and puts the blinker on and starts comming across ....
Infidel Bear
Mini Putt 2 Champion!
The laws are so loosely written that v8 supercar drivers at clipsal should not do anything silly on the racetrack, like race, else SAPOL will impound their vehicles!!
Ahhh, big governments, got to love them...
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
- Theodor Seuss Geisel
Donating Member
I guees there will be no advanced driver show at the Royal show either, going up on 2 wheels may just get their cars impounded, lol.
Stupid Govs, makes my wonder why i even vote these days.
lol sex party for the win !
No,the hoon party for the win.
i didn't see them .... damn i wasted my vote .... hahahahhaha
Infidel Bear
Mini Putt 2 Champion!
Yes, voting for a party that has more stupid policies than any other is a smart move...may as well vote greens.
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
- Theodor Seuss Geisel
there needs to be a motoring enthusiasts party.
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