Bendigo crime: Hoons target Golden Gully, Eaglehawk, Spring Gully, Sedgwick

WATCH: While hoons are flouting their dangerous behaviour on social media, catching them in the act is proving a challenge.

Reckless hoons on a mission to skid through every intersection in Bendigo are threatening anyone who dobs them in.

Hooning has become a problem throughout Bendigo with police warning the dangerous and “idiotic” stunts are risking lives.

And police say the hooning problem is centred at the very heart of the city, with hoons tearing up a notorious hot spots including multistorey and supermarket carparks.

But fed up Bendigo residents, disagree and believe the late night engine revving, burnouts and tyre skid marks on the road suggested the problem was widespread.

Highway patrol Senior Sergeant Ian Brooks said the hooning was becoming more overt, as hoons use social media to share and glorify tricks.

Sen-Sgt Brooks said a fatal crash in Bendigo last year was the direct result of hooning.

“Most of the young people believe they’re good drivers and find out too late they’re not,” he said.

“Unfortunately it cost a life.”

And while the majority of the hoons — aged between 18 and 20 — are men, Sen-Sgt Brooks said women were increasingly taking part in the meets.

He said mass gatherings of between 15 and 30 cars were happening weekly and always followed by acts of dangerous driving, including skids, doughnuts and burnouts.

“One of the groups in Bendigo has made it their mission to do a skid at every intersection in Bendigo,” Sen Sgt Brooks said.

But resident Belinda White said the reckless drivers were “everywhere”.

“(It) doesn’t matter where you go there are burn outs, even in the middle of town.” Ms White wrote on Facebook.

“They don’t go out of town anymore. I guess because there seems to be no consequences.”

While Carlee Henson joked there was only one hotspot that stretched across the entire township.

“From Huntly to Big Hill, and everywhere in between,” Ms Henson said.

Sen Sgt Brooks said the public had a key role to stopping the hoons by reporting incidents.

But he added that some people had been threatened and intimidated after reporting the dangerous drivers.

List of hooning hot spots

Provided by police

Sedgwick Rd, Sedgwick

Axe Creek Rd, Sedgwick

Lytton Terrace multistorey car park, Bendigo

One Tree Hill Rd, Spring Gully

Provided by readers

Avery’s Rd, Bendigo

Eaglehawk Rd, Bendigo

Holdsworth Rd, Bendigo

Howard St, Bendigo

Napier St, Bendigo

Prouses Rd, Bendigo

Sailors Gully Rd, Bendigo

Hodgson St, Eaglehawk

McClelland Dr, Eaglehawk

Nelson St, East Bendigo

The Cooinda Park car park, Golden Square

Collins St, Kangaroo Flat

Crusoe Rd, Kangaroo Flat

Furness St, Kangaroo Flat

Lansell Square on High St, Kangaroo Flat

Mackenzie St West, Kangaroo Flat

Sparrowhawk Rd, Long Gully

Hermitage Rd, Maiden Gully

Diamond Hill Rd, Mandurang

Allies Rd, Marong

Bright St, Quarry Hill