HOONS - HOW TO REPORT THEM

We would like to encourage all  Willow Vale  residents to use the 13HOON (134666) hotline to report drivers performing dangerous, reckless or anti-social behaviour on our roads. 

You may be wondering what type of activities you can report to 13HOON. Well, the term ‘hooning’ is used to describe ‘activity’ such as  drivers performing donuts, drifting, fishtails, revving of engines, screeching brakes, skidding, burn outs, time trials/street racing and rolling road blocks.

Hooning is dangerous because, even performed at low speeds; it may cause the driver to lose control of their vehicle, leave the road and collide with a fixed object (such as your car or garden wall) or a pedestrian. The speeds associated with street racing coupled with driver inexperience can lead to fatalities.

So, how can you help to end honing on our streets? Well, to report a hooning offence, you must first observe the behaviour and note details such as vehicle registration, vehicle characteristics, time and location of the illegal activity and a description of the behaviour. If you can do so safely and inconspicuously, images or video footage taken with your mobile are very useful to Police.

When you call 13HOON, a trained call taker will record your details and relay the information to police for follow up. For hooning incidents currently underway and where there is no immediate danger to anyone by having police attend, your information will be forwarded to a Police Communications Centre to task police for response.

However, if anyone is in immediate danger or it is a life-threatening situation, please call Triple Zero (000) immediately.

The information you provide to 13HOON is relayed to police for further investigation. This allows police to locate hooning hotspots and take action to prevent it reoccurring.

Under current anti-hoon laws police can impound a vehicle for 48 hours after a first repeat offence, up to three months for a second repeat offence, or permanently for a third repeat offence.