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13-06-2010, 10:55 AM
A HOON driver faces multiple charges after racing past a marked police car at 154km/h - less than an hour after he was caught drink-driving.
The 29-year-old Seville Grove man was driving on Safety Bay Road in Baldivis at about 1.30am Saturday when he was stopped at a police booze bus.
He allegedly registered a blood alcohol reading over 0.08 and was charged by summons, while the Ford Fairmont he was driving was parked by police on the roadside.
But just 40 minutes later, police said the hoon was back behind the wheel of the car on Kwinana Freeway, where he was clocked at 154km/h as he overtook the booze bus and two marked police patrol cars heading back to Perth.
He was charged with reckless driving and a second drink driving offence - this time driving with a blood alcohol reading in excess of 0.05.
He will appear in Rockingham Magistrate's Court this week.
The vehicle, which police said did not belong to the driver, was impounded for 28 days under the state's anti-hoon legislation.
Senior Sergeant Ian Clarke condemned the man's behaviour, saying he had put other road users at risk.
'Obviously you'd have to question his thought process at that time by overtaking a marked police car on the freeway and travelling at that sort of speed," he said.
"It's a very rare occurrence for that to happen, especially something as overt as overtaking a marked police car - that really is asking for trouble.
"Why walk up to a lion and poke it when you know you're going to get bitten?"
Snr Sgt Clarke denied police needed to take a tougher stance on drink drivers, such as seizing keys, to prevent them reoffending.
"(The reality is) 99.9 per cent of people actually do the right thing," he said.
"He could have gone and got another car and done it, so just because you take the keys of one car doesn't mean you're going to be able to stop them going to another car. You can't legislate for everything."
Snr Sgt Clarke said the driver was one of 24 drink drivers nabbed as part of a booze bus operation in the Rockingham area early yesterday morning.
In a separate operation, police made five hoon vehicle seizures during an early morning blitz on Mitchell Freeway drivers on Friday.
A total of 186 speeding motorists were also charged as part of the five-hour sting on the northbound stretch of the freeway near City West. One vehicle was clocked at 122km/h in the 80km/h zone.
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/driver-caught-over-005-then-hooning-at-154kmh/story-e6frg12c-1225878851441
hahaha As it has been said in the article, you would wonder what was going through the driver's head when he overtook the police so soon after already being caught already.
The 29-year-old Seville Grove man was driving on Safety Bay Road in Baldivis at about 1.30am Saturday when he was stopped at a police booze bus.
He allegedly registered a blood alcohol reading over 0.08 and was charged by summons, while the Ford Fairmont he was driving was parked by police on the roadside.
But just 40 minutes later, police said the hoon was back behind the wheel of the car on Kwinana Freeway, where he was clocked at 154km/h as he overtook the booze bus and two marked police patrol cars heading back to Perth.
He was charged with reckless driving and a second drink driving offence - this time driving with a blood alcohol reading in excess of 0.05.
He will appear in Rockingham Magistrate's Court this week.
The vehicle, which police said did not belong to the driver, was impounded for 28 days under the state's anti-hoon legislation.
Senior Sergeant Ian Clarke condemned the man's behaviour, saying he had put other road users at risk.
'Obviously you'd have to question his thought process at that time by overtaking a marked police car on the freeway and travelling at that sort of speed," he said.
"It's a very rare occurrence for that to happen, especially something as overt as overtaking a marked police car - that really is asking for trouble.
"Why walk up to a lion and poke it when you know you're going to get bitten?"
Snr Sgt Clarke denied police needed to take a tougher stance on drink drivers, such as seizing keys, to prevent them reoffending.
"(The reality is) 99.9 per cent of people actually do the right thing," he said.
"He could have gone and got another car and done it, so just because you take the keys of one car doesn't mean you're going to be able to stop them going to another car. You can't legislate for everything."
Snr Sgt Clarke said the driver was one of 24 drink drivers nabbed as part of a booze bus operation in the Rockingham area early yesterday morning.
In a separate operation, police made five hoon vehicle seizures during an early morning blitz on Mitchell Freeway drivers on Friday.
A total of 186 speeding motorists were also charged as part of the five-hour sting on the northbound stretch of the freeway near City West. One vehicle was clocked at 122km/h in the 80km/h zone.
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/driver-caught-over-005-then-hooning-at-154kmh/story-e6frg12c-1225878851441
hahaha As it has been said in the article, you would wonder what was going through the driver's head when he overtook the police so soon after already being caught already.