Dylan Matthew Hall pleads guilty to dangerous driving

Police secretly filmed dozens of hoons doing midnight burnouts in several notorious locations across Ipswich and Brisbane.

A Logan hoon who did one more burnout ‘to impress his dad’ just before police had his Commodore towed away, has been fined $2500 and booted off the road for nine months.

Dylan Hall was caught twice by police in a covert operation where officers secretly filmed dozens of people and drivers who gathered to do burnouts at Carole Park in Ipswich and Brisbane’s Lytton industrial area.

An Ipswich magistrate this week slammed Hall’s dangerous driving as being that of someone “young and silly” when he appeared in court for sentence.

Dylan Matthew Hall, 20, from Kingston, pleaded guilty to charges of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle in Jalrock Place at Carole Park on February 14; driving when unlicensed by demerit points; dangerous operation of a motor vehicle; and driving unlicensed by demerits points at Lytton on April 11.

Prosecutor Sergeant Trent Voigt said extensive black tyre marks and tyre debris including steel tyre belts littered the road at Jalrock Pl when covert police acted against the hoons just before 1am on February 14.

Sgt Voigt said there were in excess of 100 motor vehicles with drivers doing burnouts in front of a watching crowd of people, many running onto the road to film on their mobile phones.

Hall admitted to being the driver of a white Holden Commodore who did 360-degree burnouts causing smoke.

The driver had been very close to the watching people and the second time Hall’s car was nearly lost from view in thick smoke, the court heard.

“He admitted being the driver and said he enjoyed doing the burnouts,” Sgt Voigt said.

Hoon driver Dylan Matthew Hall, 20, was fined $2500. Picture Ross irby.

After being given tickets for the offences a tow truck arrived at 3am to take Hall’s car away.

Sgt Voigt said Hall got into the Commodore and did a 10-second burnout as he drove up to the truck.

“He said he did the burnout to impress his father who arrived in the tow truck,” Sgt Voigt said.

The court heard that in another incident at Lytton on April 11 video footage showed Hall doing a burnout.

Sgt Voigt said people in the crowd threw objects at the police officers.

Defence lawyer Matthew Fairclough said Hall’s admissions were frank and honest.

He said the actions of the 20-year-old driver had shown immaturity when showing off to impress others.

Magistrate Virginia Sturgess referred to his many prior driving offences, saying Hall on both nights had been driving in quite a ridiculous manner.

“Yes, you are 20 and still young and silly,” she said.

“You had been trusted with a P1 driver’s licence but you have a very poor history and are not demonstrating that you are a very capable driver.

“And you thought it was a clever idea to do another burnout when about to drive to the tow truck. I don’t know why your father would be impressed by that.”

Hall was convicted and fined $2500, and disqualified from driving for nine months in total.