Clamps cramp teen hoons' style

By Jodie Minus
Updated November 5 2012 - 7:31pm, first published January 13 2009 - 10:49am
Police deliver the car home yesterday.
Police deliver the car home yesterday.

Revheads and boy-racers are being dealt the ultimate humiliation if police catch them - the car's wheels will be clamped and the vehicle left outside their home for three months.Yesterday NSW Police launched the first of two wheel-clamping trials, in Wollongong and Liverpool, under the Government's recently introduced anti-hoon legislation. This allows for drivers caught by police for street-racing or burn-out offences to have their vehicles confiscated and then impounded with wheel clamps at their own premises.Any attempt to tamper with the wheel clamp would attract a $2200 fine per offence. The two vehicles in the first clamp yesterday are owned by a 19-year-old Figtree man and a 17-year-old from Campbelltown. Both are P-platers.The two were stopped and charged with street racing offences on the Hume Hwy at Liverpool on Sunday. They will appear in Liverpool Local Court on February 26. Yesterday morning, with police camera crews present, their confiscated Mitsubishi FTOs were clamped and deposited outside their homes.NSW Police Force Traffic Services Commander John Hartley said the presence of the clamped vehicles would provide the alleged offenders with a daily reminder of what they had done wrong."While a first offence would see your car confiscated for three months, if you reoffend you run the risk of police removing your pride and joy for good," Chief Superintendent Hartley said."Street racing endangers the lives of not only the drivers involved, but often innocent motorists and pedestrians."EDITORIAL Zero tolerance welcome - P22

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