Hoon article todays paper 12/09/09

[Deke]

Im not sure if anyone seen in the paper today there is a fairly big article called "hooning all in the mind" its about a guy called Ruth Callaghan that has done reasearch on hooning. Now most of the article explains that its all in the head of the driver NOT the car that they are driving ie. performance cars etc.I say good on him and finally someone gets it.

here are some quotes from the article.

The studies suggested the personality of the young drivers had much greater impact on their risk of crashing than that perennial scapegoat - the powerful car.

Mr Palamara said while calls to restrict young drivers from the most powerful cars were popular, they didnt stack up in terms of evidence.

"there's this perception that hooning is about kids who are in souped up vehicles. Not all of them are. Some of them are in bog-standard vehicles and are just trashing them,"he said.

he conducted a study several years ago investigating any relationship between driving a high powered vehical and serious crashes , but found none.
in seroiuse injury crashes - where someone was killed or hospitalised - involving young drivers licensed for under two years , the crashes were not characterised by the use of high performance behicales, he siad.
"driving a high performance vehicle is not predictive of a crash"

[MattyP]

I'm surprised The West ran a story like that, who wrote the article?

[Deke]

i am just as suprised aswell , it doesnt say but at the top it says "its not the flash car , its the attitude , finds ruth callaghan.

[TJ]

Its buried in the health section for anyone wanting to see it.

[Torquen]

page??

[family guy]

did anyone see the sheds full of impounded cars on ACA or another show like it. Heaps of bunkies, fwd, even crappy work utes. not so called preformance cars

[Deke]

its the page before the U.liftout thing im pretty sure

[ossie_21]

did anyone see the sheds full of impounded cars on ACA or another show like it. Heaps of bunkies, fwd, even crappy work utes. not so called preformance cars

Yeah I seen that, I was keeping an eye out to just see how many imports were in there but could only see a few, but there was all types of cars you wouldn't expect you could get hoon-lawed all that easy haha

But surprise surprise, when they had the camera on the reporter when they started babbling shit....they did it with the blue S13 right behind him.

[Susstt]

This must be the article from those reporters that were on a cruise about 3weeks ago..

Were there any pics with the article? they took heaps of pics of everyone that night.

[Bomber]

But surprise surprise, when they had the camera on the reporter when they started babbling shit....they did it with the blue S13 right behind him.

A Q's variant no doubt