Do you think hooning rates are increasing?
“Hooning” refers to the act of using a vehicle in an irresponsible and dangerous manner in public places.
• Street racing and hooning behaviours have attracted growing community concern in Australia, and internationally, over recent years.
What do you think the measures and laws are on hooning?
All Australian states and territories, and New Zealand, have now implemented “anti-hooning” countermeasures, typically involving impounding the vehicles of offenders for increasing periods of time for subsequent offences, ultimately leading to vehicle forfeiture.
What percentage rate perform on public streets and cause unneccesarry noise? CARRS-Q’s Queensland investigation2 found that most hooning offences:
- occurred on public streets (95.4%); involved causing unnecessary noise or smoke
What do you think they where doing
(eg. burn outs, donuts, fish tails; 66.9%); or engaging in an illegal street race or speed trial (19.4%);
- primarily occurred between Thursday and Sunday (although this may reflect enforcement; 76.9%).
What vehicles do you think are mostly involved
80.5% of vehicles involved in hooning offences were cars or station wagons. Contrary to popular belief, hooning offences need not occur in modified street machines, but rather in common vehicles such as Holden Commodores and Ford Falcons.Almost two thirds of vehicles involved in hooning offences were Holdens or Fords (63.9%). Although these are the most common two makes of vehicles on Australian roads (Motor Vehicle Census, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2004), Holdens are over-represented in hooning offences (47.4% vs. 19.1%). Similarly, Nissans are driven in 12.9% of hooning offences, but make up only 6.9% of registered vehicles in Australia. - Approximately half of the vehicles involved in hooning offences were 10 to 20 years old (50.5%).In both Queensland and Australia, the average age of registered passenger vehicles is 10 years, while for all registered vehicles the average age is 10.3 years (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2004).
FOR MORE STATISTCS AND FACTS ON HOONING AND WHAT THEY DO FOLLOW THE LINKS BELOW
http://www.carrsq.qut.edu.au/publications/corporate/hooning_fs.pdf
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/11298/
http://www.fordaustraliaforums.com/forum/showthread.php?31841-Hoon-statistics.