Wednesday 30th January 2008

Aussie Speeders To Lose Cars

New laws could mean speeders have cars confiscated

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Speeders would hand over keys under new laws

Speeders in Australia are facing having their cars taken away altogether under even tougher new regulations.

Recently authorities in New South Wales revealed they were looking to film the crushing of street racers’ cars and putting the footage on YouTube.

But now the government wants to extend so-called ‘car hoon laws’ so that drivers caught doing excessive speeds could have their vehicles confiscated.

Police Minister David Campbell said changes to the recently written legislation could allow police to confiscate the cars of people who were not involved in street racing, but who were driving well above the speed limit.

Current laws are said to allow police to confiscate cars for burnouts, donuts and in drag racing but not for excessive speeds.

'The work hasn't been done to date on whether or not we should confiscate cars from people doing those speeds,’ Mr Campbell said.

‘[But] it's something worth looking at.

'It's something we need to do the work on, and I'll initiate some discussions.’

[Neomagic]

The Ozies need to be careful there beginning to become just like the US and the UK, and there strict rules are worse in some ways.

[core_four]

Their laws on speeding make ours look relaxed!

[DamoLLb]

This would end up costing the British tax payer money if that rule was implemented here......as we would have to replace the unmarked speeding vectra that was just crushed

[Smiler.]

Ah, the Anti-Hoon Laws.

They even have radio ads with coppers explaining that they have a fleet of marked & unmarked cars on the lookout.

Apparantly, Bendigo is the hoon capital of Victoria. A few weeks ago, a lad had his car impounded for performing a 72 metre rolling burnout.

Good effort

[snorky]

are we renaming it "Euro-Crush" ???

[GarC]

Imagine this and a Gumball style event combined.... The carnage!

[cowellsj]

Impounding cars for burnouts and donuts?

Taking it a bit far me thinks.

[shoestring7]

GarC said:

Imagine this and a Gumball style event combined.... The carnage!

Quite; so you're a wealthy 50 year old and get caught doing well over the limit on a quiet road in your $200k Porsche. Does this mean the authorities are going to confiscate it without compensation under the Anti-hoon laws?

Frankly it sounds hysterical to me.

SS7

[hirsty27]

'Aussie Speeders To Lose Cars'

Sounds fine!, especially if they all drive like that woman out of Neighbours,-(Mitsubushi FTO)

Edited by hirsty27 on Wednesday 30th January 11:37

Edited by hirsty27 on Wednesday 30th January 11:40

[711]

It is hysterical.

This will just give people the incentive to race away from the police. Why bother stopping when the penalty is having your car crushed?

[Fantic SuperT]

You might as well make a run for it and smash your way through roadblocks if the cars going to be a total loss anyway.

[tps23]

i partly agree with 711

if the police are going to crush your car then you might as well get value for money in doing stupid speeds and take the risk of crushing it yourself [preferablly without innocent casualties!]

[Pelo]

cowellsj said:

Impounding cars for burnouts and donuts?

Taking it a bit far me thinks.

In NZ, if you are caught doing burnouts, donuts, or "excessive acceleration" the maximum (and often applied if you are under 25) punishment is 6 months loss of licence, 1 month vehicle impoundment and close to $2000 of fines/court costs.

[hirsty27]

Pelo said:

cowellsj said:

Impounding cars for burnouts and donuts?

Taking it a bit far me thinks.

In NZ, if you are caught doing burnouts, donuts, or "excessive acceleration" the maximum (and often applied if you are under 25) punishment is 6 months loss of licence, 1 month vehicle impoundment and close to $2000 of fines/court costs.

I'm not emagrating to New Zealand now,..Canada sounds good!

[Pelo]

Yes the main thing is to be a good boy... and don't get caught

[Bizzle]

Agreed,
The only thing this is going to do is encourage people to run from the police. If you had just spend thousands of pounds custom modifying your pride and joy. Would you just hand it over if there was "a chance" that the police would take it away and crush it into a cube?

Dangerious tactics if you ask me.

[havoc]

Tell me this is a joke article?!? Confiscation for speeding?!? And then what??? CRUSH it? Store it for 14 days or more?

Whatever happened to 'punishment fitting the crime' - and how can a several £k 'fine' (effectively) fit a (99.9%) victimless crime such as speed over an arbitrary (arbitrarily low!) limit???

[Debaser]

Pelo said:

In NZ, if you are caught doing burnouts, donuts, or "excessive acceleration" the maximum (and often applied if you are under 25) punishment is 6 months loss of licence, 1 month vehicle impoundment and close to $2000 of fines/court costs.

What is 'excessive acceleration'? Do they have an objective acceleration limit?

[telecat]

Who the h@ll would want to emigrate to Aus or NZ now??

[ross_stig]

what retards! would this mean you would get your car taken away for doing 100mph on an empty motorway at like 1am? how ridiculous!