Burnout hoons Barry Campbell, Justin Uzelac, Scott Saunders and Kalisha Chidgey face Wyong Court

A court has heard how Highway Patrol officers’ in-car technology caught out motorists and onlookers who scattered after a secret two hour burnout session in a Central Coast industrial estate.

Kalisha Chidgey, 22, of The Entrance, and Barry Campbell, 20, of Blue Haven, leaving Wyong Local Court after pleading guilty to hoon offences. Picture: Richard Noone

Three men have been sent to undergo pre-sentence reports and a woman has been ordered to attend the traffic offenders program after pleading guilty to burnout offences.

Police facts tendered in court state the four motorists were among a number of young people who converged on an isolated cul-de-sac at the end of Newbridge Rd in an industrial area of Berkeley Vale on the evening of November 11.

A group of six cars arrived at the location before CCTV from a nearby business captured a number of them doing burnouts between 6.51pm and 9.02pm.

Six drivers where charged after allegedly doing burnouts in Newbridge Rd, Berkeley Vale, on November 11, 2020. Picture: Google

Tuggerah Lakes Highway Patrol officers arrived and observed a 16-year-old Learner driver from Lake Munmorah conducting a burnout in a Toyota HiLux.

As police were issuing the teenager traffic infringements they observed five other vehicles leave the cul-de-sac with their cars’ registration details captured on the Highway Patrol car’s automatic number plate recognition system.

“At this time police were unaware of the aggravated burnouts committed by the vehicles,” the facts state.

Police reviewed the CCTV footage and arrested Barry Rodney Gordon Winston Campbell, 20, of Blue Haven a few days later.

Kalisha Chidgey, 22, of The Entrance, and Barry Campbell, 20, of Blue Haven, leaving Wyong Local Court after pleading guilty to hoon offences. Picture: Richard Noone

He pleaded guilty to doing a burnout, participating in a group activity involving burnouts and driving a prohibited vehicle — a Ford XR6 Turbo — while on his Provisional licence.

“At 6.51pm the accused is captured on high definition motion censored CCTV footage performing a rear wheel skid commonly referred to as a burnout within the cul-de-sac,” the facts state.

“The accused is captured performing the burnout, sustaining it for over an eight second period. The burnout causes a large amount of smoke to come from the rear tyres. A person is seen filming the burnout and a passenger is clearly seen seated in the front passenger seat.”

Representing himself in court Campbell said he lost his job because of COVID-19 and with his licence suspended it would be harder to find work.

“I have to start pulling my head in,” he told the court.

Magistrate Mick Morahan described his offending as not inconsequential but “a big bit stupid”.

All four young people appeared before Magistrate Mick Morahan at Wyong Court.

“These offences are very strange,” he said.

“I rarely see them, I rarely see people as stupid as you.”

He ordered Campbell to undergo a full pre-sentence report before adjourning his matter to March 1 for sentence.

Justin Robert Uzelac, 19, of Kincumber, pleaded guilty to two burnout offences from the night of November 11 as well as performing another burnout in front of police just after midnight on December 7 at the Terrigal Haven car park.

He also pleaded guilty to failing to display P-plates and driving while suspended in relation to that incident.

An agreed statement of facts state police were patrolling Terrigal Esplanade when they saw him doing burnouts and doughnuts in the Haven car park.

When they arrived he got out and ran around into the front passenger seat.

Police asked what he was doing and he replied “driving like a f...ing idiot”.

P-plater Barry Campbell, 20, of Blue Haven, with his Ford Falcon XR6. Picture: Facebook

He was also ordered to undergo a pre-sentence report and adjourned for sentencing on the same date.

Scott Bradley Saunders, 24, of Lake Munmorah, pleaded guilty to driving his Nissan Skyline on a nature strip adjacent to Newbridge Rd, Berkeley Vale, and watching others doing burnouts in the cul-de-sac before police arrived.

While the facts state he did not perform a burnout himself Magistrate Morahan ordered he also undergo a pre-sentence report before his matter returns on March 1.

Kalisha Chidgey, 22, of The Entrance, also pleaded guilty to driving her blue Holden Commodore SS sedan on the nature strip and participating in a group involving the sustained loss of traction.

She told the court she didn’t know watching burnouts was illegal and was ordered to attend the traffic offender’s program.

She returns to court on February 15 for sentence.

Meanwhile the 16-year-old Learner driver and another youth, 17, of Summerland Point, were issued with a number of traffic offences and their licences were suspended.