Queensland’s 10 wildest hoon videos in the last year, across Townsville, Sunshine Coast, Gold Coast and Greater Brisbane
“D***head behaviour”: Doughnuts outside a police station and tearing up a Townsville sporting field were just some of the shocking acts of hooning caught on camera in the last year. Watch Queensland’s 10 wildest hooning videos.
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Dangerously doing doughnuts outside a police station and tearing up a Townsville sporting field were just some of the shocking hoon acts caught on camera in the last year.
The State Government introduced new legislation in April targeting hooning drivers, where they can be fined for viewing, participating or promoting “group hooning activity”.
Queensland Police Minister Mark Ryan said drivers would be punished.
“If you want to tear up our roads, we’ll tear up your car,” he said.
“If you want to be a spectator at a hooning event, you will be breaking the law. If you promote a hooning event it will be an offence.”
Here we look at the 10 wildest hooning videos across Queensland in the last year as hoons paid price for dangerous driving.
Townsville streets
Police are ramping up patrols to stamp out hooning in Townsville after shocking footage of an illegal car meet emerged online.
Senior Sergeant Robert Nalder, the officer in charge of Townsville’s highway patrol, said his team was proactively targeting hooning with patrols across the city, including hot spots like Southern Port Rd.
Michael Francis Newell
A 24-year-old Redlands man has been jailed for a month for what a magistrate said was the worst hooning she had ever dealt with.
“It is absolutely d***head behaviour,” said Magistrate Deborah Vasta in Cleveland Magistrates Court last year.
“You hit it big time; that is the worst hooning that I have seen and I have seen a lot of it. Most people usually do it for a bit of fun at a backstreet, not at such a dangerous location; not for such a long extended period.”
Newell pleaded guilty to dangerous operation of a vehicle, driving while court disqualified, driving a defective vehicle, stealing, driving while unregistered and driving while uninsured.
He was sentenced to six months jail with a parole release date after serving one month in custody and his driving licence was disqualified for three and a half years.
Newell was also ordered to pay $380 in restitution.
Gold Coast hoon’s car crushed
Cops crushed a car belonging to an alleged serial Gold Coast hoon accused of doing burnouts outside a local police station.
Police allege that just before midnight on November 24, 2021 police were patrolling Geary Crescent at Molendinar following a number of complaints regarding hooning in the area.
They observed a black Holden Commodore bearing no registration plates with its rear tyres blown, travelling on its rims.
Police attempted to intercept the vehicle, but the driver allegedly evaded them until he was arrested some time later.
Townsville West End sports field
A group of young hoons were filmed doing doughnuts in allegedly stolen cars and ripping up a Townsville sports field.
A West End resident said the sound of a car crash woke them up, and they got up to find three cars hooning around the field on Hugh St at about 4am.
Mitchell James Zak
A serial hoon caught doing doughnuts outside a Gold Coast police station has been labelled as “stupid, reckless and dangerous in the extreme”.
Mitchell James Zak will no longer be able to drive for four years after he faced Southport Magistrates Court last year and pleaded guilty to dangerous operation of a vehicle, unlicensed driving, speeding and evasion of police.
The 26-year-old mechanic’s worst offences included being caught doing burnouts four times in various places across the Gold Coast on January 22 last year.
The two occasions were watched by about 20 people near a service station in Arundel where he did burnouts until the tyres exploded.
Zak was fined $8937, placed on probation for two and a half years and disqualified from driving for four years.
Ipswich hooning car crash
A youth has narrowly escaped with his life after he was sent flying through the air when struck by a hooning car at Ipswich late on Saturday night, May 6.
Bystanders filmed and posted to Snapchat the moment the out-of-control car hit the 17-year-old, flipping him in the air before he become wedged under a parked car in Newhill Drive, Swanbank.
The teenager endured significant leg trauma, including the harrowing contortion of his right leg as it bent entirely in the opposite direction.
Townsville sports field ripped up
Thoughtless hoons in a stolen Toyota Landcruiser have been caught on video ripping up a school sports field in Townsville as students playing nearby watched on.
Police are investigating after a six-wheeled silver 2002 Toyota Landcruiser was allegedly stolen from a Rasmussen home sometime late evening on May 23.
Footage emerged on social media of the stolen ute hooning around on a school sports field in Annandale, ripping up the grass and performing doughnuts as students playing soccer at the field watch on.
Bundaberg hoon
Bundaberg Police allege the driver of a red Holden Commodore performed three protracted burnouts at the intersection of Elliott Heads Road and Bundaberg Ring Road, Ashfield on Tuesday, February 28.
Police are seeking assistance from the public to help identify the driver and vehicle involved in the alleged offence.
Footage shows the car performing a burnout in the middle of the road as they sped away.
Jake Dylan Greenbank
A Loganlea P-plater was two weeks from reaching his open licence when police caught him drink driving and doing “doughnuts” on Teewah Beach, a Sunshine Coast Court has heard.
Jake Dylan Greenbank, 23, who represented himself in Maroochydore Magistrates Court, pleaded guilty on November 14, 2022 to one charge of driving without due care and attention and drink driving, after he was caught hooning on Teewah Beach.
The court heard Greenbank was pulled over for a breath test after he was spotted by police doing “doughnuts” on the sand and blew 0.102, more than twice the legal limit for a driver with an open licence.
He was fined $350.
Zane Timothy James Dixon
A serial hoon has landed in court facing a whopping 65 charges.
Zane Timothy James Dixon, 24, of Nundah in Brisbane, pleaded guilty in Beenleigh Magistrates Court to 65 charges on Monday, including six counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle and 12 counts of driving disqualified.
The court heard Polair observed a group of more than 100 people and vehicles at a hoon meet on Link Drive at Yatala, south of Brisbane, on August 21, 2021.
Dixon was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment with an immediate parole release date, and the 183 days he spent in pre-sentence custody was declared time served under the sentence.
He was also disqualified from driving for four years.
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