New QLD Rules for hoons and other related offences.

[Steve M Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close Steve M]

This was just sent to me, not sure how true it is [IMG][/IMG]

[berniebgf Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close berniebgf]

So, doing a burn out is more dangerous than someone driving at more than 0.15% or driving at more than 40km over the limit?

Does not make sense to me. Am I reading that right>?

Bernie

[Steve M Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close Steve M]

Seems that way Bernie.....Cheers Steve

[Graz Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Graz]

So, doing a burn out is more dangerous than someone driving at more than 0.15% or driving at more than 40km over the limit?

Does not make sense to me. Am I reading that right>?

Bernie

Wow you are reading that right.
I thought we had it tough down in VIC but that is harsh,90 days for a burnout.
VIC hoon laws
From 1 July 2011, the anti-hoon laws provide that if police have reasonable grounds for believing a driver has committed a hoon-related offence, they have the power to seize that vehicle and impound or immobilise it for 30 days (increased from 48 hours). A vehicle may be impounded or immobilised, regardless of who owns it and whether the driver is the registered operator.

The changes that became law on 1 July, 2011 also include a new, more serious category of offences that include:

a repeat offence of unlicensed driving
driving at 70 km/h or more over the speed limit
a repeat offence of driving with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.10 or higher
a repeat offence of driving with more than the prescribed concentration of drugs in the person's blood or oral fluid.
Any driver committing a second hoon-related offence within three years may have their vehicle impounded for up to three months.

[PLAYDOH Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close PLAYDOH]

Clear evidence that drink driving isn't a serious offence, four chances before your car is taken... pfffft

[stevensr34 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close stevensr34]

Perhaps the thinking is that a burnout can more quickly lead to a car out of control than drink driving does. Not that both aren't serious issues for other road users.

Type 1 offences really should all occur at a race track - not on the road.
Type 2 offences really should not occur at all. period.

Must be getting old. I don't really have a problem with any of these rules!

[rob_macca67 Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close rob_macca67]

That section in Type about "Driving an illegally modified vehicle not complying with pre-scribed sections of the vehicle stds & safety" could easily be used against a wide range of vehicles, including 4WD's with too big of a lift kit and so on, & so on.....

[juc33_prado Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close juc33_prado]

So, doing a burn out is more dangerous than someone driving at more than 0.15% or driving at more than 40km over the limit?

Does not make sense to me. Am I reading that right>?

Bernie

not really giving that much thought are they, think of how many more people are in danger with a person over 0.15% bac behind the wheel as compared to a guy doing a burnout? ... and 4 times these clowns could be behind the wheel!

[mjrandom Out of control poster! Find all posts View Profile Close mjrandom]

Oh dear. Nanny you are wanted back at the Nursing Home and we want our state back.

[hahnking Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close hahnking]

Welcome to Queensland - where you can't do burnouts but can get loaded and drive home from the pub

[Bushbasher Out of control poster! Find all posts View Profile Close Bushbasher]

The hoons are gathering at shopping centres, fast food outlets and other street locations after hours and doing burnouts in front of crowds. There's always the risk of a car losing control and crashing into the crowd. Associated with this is the many who are driving whilst under the influence of alcohol or drugs or both and those driving whilst under licence suspension. The clots that do burnouts in suburban streets deserve everything the law can throw at them. Our streets are full of black tyre marks and it's everywhere you go. Like a graffiti scourge. And the bits of busted tyre pose a risk to other road users. Not to forget the acrid smell of burning rubber that gets into your roof top airconditioners and fills the house with the pungent stink. Every time we get some rain all the floggers in their Crummydore utes do burnouts because it's the only time they can get their wheelsto spin. A young bloke here just got clocked at 218km/hr after reports about burnouts and other anti-social behaviour. Obviously losing the car for 28 days or 6 months or whatever is like a badge of honour to these fools. Our locals couldn't give a frig about losing the car. Many that are seized are never claimed back by the owners. That leaves the towing and storage agents out of pocket. Only one WA motorist has had his car confiscated and destroyed for multiple hoon seizures. There is no deterrent.

[Ozpat Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ozpat]

One thing we don't miss about our old street in western Sydney. Not a day went by that we didn't have to put up with the screeching donuts and burnouts and billowing cloud of smoke and stench of burning rubber right on our corner even when the schools were getting out. Was a nightmare backing out of your own driveway. So many times I've seen them all over the road 100 miles an hour all the way down the street. One even crashed into next door's wall. A little girl down the street killed on her front porch by a hoon out of control. Hope he's still rotting in jail. Best one was when a hoon came flying up towards us, missed two coppers crossing the street by millimetres nearly taking out another car on the t-junction. Made my day when the cops threw the book at them.

[JoshF Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close JoshF]

That section in Type about "Driving an illegally modified vehicle not complying with pre-scribed sections of the vehicle stds & safety" could easily be used against a wide range of vehicles, including 4WD's with too big of a lift kit and so on, & so on.....

illegal mods on a 4WD's are still illegal. The rules are a little more open now than ever before in QLD but there are still limits (and more compliance options available) to be bound by

[Ozpat Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ozpat]

Just be glad you're not on a Harley up here.

[LargeInAPrado Member Find all posts View Profile Close LargeInAPrado]

Perhaps the thinking is that a burnout can more quickly lead to a car out of control than drink driving does. Not that both aren't serious issues for other road users.

Type 1 offences really should all occur at a race track - not on the road.
Type 2 offences really should not occur at all. period.

Must be getting old. I don't really have a problem with any of these rules!

You must be!

When is a burnout a burnout? Revving your engine? Starting your car and it makes a little too much exhaust noise, what is too much and how does a policeman determine it was too much?

Every type one offence needs no hard proof, ONLY the word of the booking officer vs you

Every type two offence needs hard proof, a speed camera photo, a measurement on a lidar, two measurements on a breathalyser ...

Type one with no hard proof caries heavier penalties ...

Do i need to point out the obvious to you?