{"id":67419,"date":"2014-05-14T03:32:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T17:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=67419"},"modified":"2020-08-21T18:50:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T08:50:42","slug":"1026-fine-for-highway-speeder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/05\/14\/1026-fine-for-highway-speeder\/","title":{"rendered":"$1026 Fine For Highway Speeder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>May 13, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A 42-year-old Bundaberg man, pulled over by Kingaroy police on the Bunya Highway at Tingoora, will pay a hefty fine for maintaining a &#8220;highway&#8221; speed through the town.<\/p>\n<p>Kingaroy Officer-in-Charge Senior-Sergeant Duane Frank said the man was caught driving at 104km\/h in the 60 zone.<\/p>\n<p>He was issued with a ticket for $1026 and will lose eight demerit points.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Snr Sgt Frank said he was pleased with the community&#8217;s behavior at the weekend&#8217;s Burrandowan races.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was no trouble and no arrests,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were only a couple of minor alcohol-related issues involving young males.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said there was a large amount of traffic heading out to the racetrack.<\/p>\n<p>Disappointingly, a 20-year-old P-Plate driver was caught travelling at 138km\/h in a 100 zone.<\/p>\n<p>Snr Sgt Frank said the woman, who was carrying four passengers, was speeding on the single-lane bitumen road.<\/p>\n<p>She was fined $500 and lost her licence.<\/p>\n<p>Her excuse?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She said she was running late for the start of the races,&#8221; Snr Sgt Frank said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The police program to offer breath-tests on Sunday morning at Burrandowan proved effective with no drink-drivers detected by police on the roads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Snr Sgt Frank urged Kingaroy drivers to take care around the roadworks currently taking place at the intersection of Markwell and Kingaroy streets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The work, which started this week, is related to the installation of traffic lights at the corner and is expected to be finished mid-year.<\/p>\n<p>Reduced speed limits will be enforced in the area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kingaroy police pulled over a vehicle containing two Sunshine Coast men at 2:00pm on Sunday in Kingaroy&#8217;s CBD.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Snr Sgt Frank said\u00a0checks revealed the driver was unlicensed and the vehicle had false plates. \u00a0The passenger was also wanted on an outstanding arrest warrant.<\/p>\n<p>An 18-year-old man has been charged with unlicensed driving and using false plates. His car has been impounded by police for seven days.<\/p>\n<p>His passenger, a 22-year-old man, was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Kingaroy man was arrested on a &#8220;return to prison&#8221; warrant on Monday after allegedly breaching his parole conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Police located the man in Youngman Street.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Police investigating reports of a disqualified driver located his vehicle in Markwell Street, Kingaroy, on Monday at 2:00pm but no sign of the driver.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Snr Sgt Frank said the man was later located at his home in Kumbia.<\/p>\n<p>He has been charged with disqualified driving and his car has been impounded.<\/p>\n<p>He will appear in Kingaroy Magistrates Court on May 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 42-year-old Bundaberg man, pulled over by Kingaroy police on the Bunya Highway at Tingoora, will pay a hefty fine for maintaining a &#8220;highway&#8221; speed through the town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":268462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,24],"tags":[1132],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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