Qld: Mother and son charged with hooning on Gold Coast

AAP General News (Australia)
12-21-2009
Qld: Mother and son charged with hooning on Gold Coast

BRISBANE, Dec 21 AAP - A woman was encouraging her son to speed when both were charged
with dangerous driving on a busy Gold Coast road, police say.

Officers on traffic duty on Seaworld Drive at The Spit at 11am (AEST) on Sunday allegedly
saw two cars driving at up to 140km/h in the 60km/h zone.

An unmarked car intercepted the cars and officers learned they were being driven by
a mother and son, aged 42 and 20.

Superintendent Jim Keogh said the mother allegedly told police she was pushing her
son, who was in the lead car, to see how fast he could go.

"What possible excuse could you have on the holiday period, Sunday, Sea World Drive
at The Spit, so there was plenty of people out and about ... (it was) foolhardy behaviour,"

Supt Keogh told reporters.

"Lucky it didn't result in injury, or even worse, death."

Both were served speeding fines and notices to appear in Southport Magistrates Court
on January 14, charged with dangerous driving and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle.

Both cars were seized under the state's "hooning" laws.

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