Corey Jye Bartz fronts Noosa court for traffic offences on Teewah Beach

After he was busted doing fishtails and doughnuts at Teewah Beach, a drunken teen told police it was because he saw a handmade sign on the beach saying “do skids”.

Corey Jye Bartz, 19, pleaded guilty in the Noosa Magistrates Court to drink-driving and driving without due care and attention after the October 15 incident at Teewah Beach on the Noosa North Shore.

A teenager who was caught by police doing fishtails and doughnuts while drunk at a notorious beach hooning hotspot has fronted a Noosa court.

Corey Jye Bartz, 19, pleaded guilty in the Noosa Magistrates Court to drink-driving and driving without due care and attention after the October 15 incident at Teewah Beach on the Noosa North Shore.

Police prosecutor Phillip Stephens said officers were already on the beach at the site of a car rollover when they saw a white Mazda ute about 200m north fishtailing and doing doughnuts about 4.45pm.

Sergeant Stephens said the ute lost traction in the sand a “number of times” and was driving within a 50kmh area near a camping zone.

The court was told the Currimundi teen told officers he had seen a handmade sign erected by others on the beach saying “do skids”, so he obliged.

The sergeant said officers could smell “liquor on his breath” and Bartz told them he had been drinking the night before and had finished up “about nine or 10” that morning.

The court was told the teenager had a breath-alcohol concentration of 0.115 per cent and as a P-plate driver his reading should have been zero.

Teewah Beach has become a hooning hotspot.

“The prevalence of hooning type behaviour on Teewah Beach is high,” Sergeant Stephens said.

“It attracts significant community denunciation.

“It certainly attracts the ire of police who regularly patrol that area, notwithstanding people continue to drive in that manner.”

The sergeant said the driving manner was especially prevalent among young drivers on P-plates.

Bartz had no legal representation and had nothing to say.

Acting Magistrate Graham Hillan fined Bartz $1200 and disqualified his licence for six months for drink-driving and two months for driving without due care.

Convictions were recorded.

Originally published as Corey Jye Bartz fronts Noosa court for traffic offences on Teewah Beach