Police intelligence officers scouting social media platforms have already identified multiple offenders hooning and doing burnouts, with 12 traffic infringement notices issued this week.
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The costly offences - each of which incurs a $675 fine and the loss of three demerit points - were detected within days of ACT's head of road policing, Detective Acting Superintendent Donna Hofmeier, declaring that dangerous driving and posting those activities to social media was the focus of police attention during May.
Six drivers from the ACT and NSW have been detected by police committing offences within the territory in the past few days.
Between the six drivers there were:
- eight offences related to improper use of a motor vehicle ($675 fine and three demerit points);
- two offences relating to driving an unregistered vehicle ($675 fine); and
- two offences related to driving an uninsured motor vehicle ($903 fine).
In one of the YouTube videos posted by a Canberra driver, the make of the vehicle and ACT number plate are clearly visible prior to him doing some "test skids" on public roads.
Ironically, the host of the Youtube channel to which the video was posted "does not condone any illegal activities".
In the ACT, Section 10B of the Road Transport Act 1999 also allows police to impound vehicles upon conviction of committing an improper offence such as a burnout, but they can only do so within 10 days of the offence being committed.
A speeding driver travelling southbound on the Majura Parkway attracted police attention and lost his licence this week when he was clocked at 146km/h during Wednesday's wet road conditions.
The 44-year-old Charnwood man, who had a seven-year-old child in the vehicle, was issued with a traffic infringement notice for exceeding the speed limit by more than 45 km/h.
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He will be fined $1841 and lose six points from his licence which, given loss of points from previous offences, will result in a three-month automatic licence suspension.
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