Hooning hell hits hillside streets
MOUNT Louisa residents have been left frustrated by hoons who they say are deliberately backfiring their cars while using an emerging community as a makeshift drag strip.
Greenview Drive resident Cecilia Nguyen has lived in the area for about three years and said hooning had ramped up in the past couple of months.
She said hoons, usually Pplaters, were using the quiet streets near the Hillside Gardens housing development as a drag strip of an evening and late into the night.
She said Thorn St was a particularly problematic road.
With only a handful of homes built so far on that street, she said young drivers were using it as a straight- line speed test for their cars.
She said drivers began filtering into the area of an evening, but had been known to start revving up from as late as 10pm and go until the early hours of the morning.
She was concerned the area was home to young families, elderly residents and dog owners, often out walking.
Ms Nguyen said the noise often set off dogs barking and the noise from the hoons reverberated against the mountain range.
“We can still hear the hooning echoing,” she said.
Other Mount Louisa residents spoke of their frustrations trying to do shift work when the backfiring was taking place every night.
One new resident, who bought into the area in May, said it could go until 2am.
Michelle Marshall said she’d taken recordings from her living room highlighting how loud it was.
“This is frequently waking up my young son, keeping me up and causing my animals huge amounts of stress. My animals are now so stressed out that they are starting to become reactive even when a car a few streets away revs,” she said.
Kirwan police officer- incharge Senior Sergeant Jason Brosnan said officers would patrol the area and he would be seeking Road Policing Unit and Rapid Action and Patrols Group assistance.
“We’ll be increasing our police presence over the next few days,” he said.
Call PoliceLink on 131 444 to report hooning, or 000 for more serious offences.