Gold Coast hoons filmed drifting across highway lanes, running red lights and knocking over bins
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Shocking Moment ‘Mexican Hoon Cartel’ mocks new driving laws as they share videos of themselves speeding, drifting across multiple lanes and going through a red light
- Footage shows fish-tailed hoons driving through a red light along the Gold Coast road
- The cars drift across all three lanes and even past a warning sign about cameras
- Hoons knock over trash cans in images viewed thousands of times on social media
- Brazen acts continue despite new anti-taunt laws and hi-tech police cameras
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Gold Coast scorn gangs have shown off their dangerous driving on social media, blatantly battling new laws and hi-tech cameras designed to stop them.
Video posted online by a group calling itself the “Mexican Hoon Cartel” shows station wagons hurtling down Bermuda St, a major state highway, twisting wildly and skidding across all three lanes.
The reckless ‘drift’ driving continues even in the pouring rain through red lights, where the cars whiz through without hesitation.
Another clip shows a car knocking over a row of garbage cans in the suburbs.
A gang of hoons have posted videos of themselves recklessly ‘fishtailing’ along a major Gold Coast road
The hoons also performed a stunt where they knocked over a row of suburban garbage cans
Anti-taunting laws were introduced in Queensland last year to tackle dangerous driving with the legislation coupled with a new set of new technology to deal with offenders.
But in one of the clips, we see cars skidding past a sign warning that hi-tech cameras are in action to stop exactly the behavior being demonstrated.
State opposition leader David Chrisafulli condemned the videos, which have been viewed thousands of times, and pledged to take action.
“No Queenslander should have idiots racing down their street like it’s part of an F1 circuit and until there are more police and stricter laws it will continue to happen,” he said.
Queensland Police said they were aware of the video and were investigating.
Red traffic lights were of no concern to the hoons who screeched their way through them and performed their perilous antics
In a brutal act of defiance, the hoons performed their antics next to a sign warning of new hi-tech cameras, which are meant to stop their behavior
Police Secretary Mark Ryan said earlier this year that the new laws plus the introduction of hi-tech cameras to catch hoons would be a game-changer.
“Police are already recording incidents with new high-quality cameras and are scrutinizing the footage to identify the drivers involved and take strong enforcement action,” he said.
“The new laws are a game-changer for police and give officers more flexibility to go after any vehicle participating in illegal taunting events.”
A serial Gold Coast sneer had his car impounded and crushed by Queensland Police in June
In June, his car was crushed by a Gold Coast taunt accused of burning out in front of a police station and leading officers on a wild chase.
The 26-year-old from the Gold Coast had a long history of dangerous driving that included evading the police, driving without a license and driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle.
Queensland Police seized the man’s 2002 black Holden Commodore under the tightened laws and used an excavator to smash the car into pieces before it was sold for scrap.