Josh Crowe sentenced for street racing crimes

A Dubbo man repeatedly roared through country towns and was clocked doing up to 223km/h, all while filming it on a GoPro.

Joshua Crowe pleaded guilty to street racing and negligent driving charges in Dubbo Local Court. Picture: Ryan Young

A motorcyclist has been spared time behind bars and will be allowed back on the road in 12 months after he was convicted of a string of driving offences.

Dubbo man Joshua Luke Crowe, 30, pleaded guilty to multiple negligent driving, street racing and reckless driving charges when he faced court in November last year.

Joshua Crowe was supported by a woman as he ducked for cover outside Dubbo Local Court. Picture: Ryan Young

In December, he was convicted of all offences and sentenced to a 12-month term of imprisonment which he was ordered to be serve in the community in the form of an intensive corrections order in Dubbo Local Court.

Magistrate Gary Wilson also fined Crowe a total of $5250, ordered him to undertake 200 hours of community service work and disqualified him from driving until December 23, 2021.

Crowe’s conduct on the roads came to light in August last year when a woman who he embarked on a high-speed joy ride with crashed her motorbike into railing and was left fighting for life in a Sydney hospital.

During the ride from Dubbo to Parkes, Crowe had a GoPro camera attached to his helmet which police looked through after the crash.

In court documents, police described the footage uncovered on the camera as “disturbing and graphic”.

Dubbo Local Court magistrate Gary Wilson convicted Crowe in Dubbo Local Court. Picture: Jedd Manning

It revealed several other joy-rides and street races Crowe and other riders embarked on around Dubbo and the extraordinarily high speeds they reached.

In early August, Crowe was captured doing 211km/h in a 100km/h zone on the way to Mogriguy Creek from Brocklehurst.

Later in the night, Crowe was clocked doing 200km/h and the footage showed him overtaking a semi-trailer at 173km/h on the Mitchell Highway en route to Narromine.

The next day Crowe was seen doing 223km/h and roaring through a railway level crossing at Ballimore without stopping.

Crowe was also spotted taking part in a street race with another rider where they travelled side-by-side at speeds of up to 200km/h.

The woman whose crash triggered Crowe’s court appearances is understood to have recovered.