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Discussion in the Australian Lamborghini forums.

When the Italian police unveiled their state-of-the-art Lamborghini patrol cars, they cannot have been short of volunteers itching to take the supercars in pursuit of speeding criminals.

A team of elite drivers was trained to chase down speeding motorists and deliver urgently-needed transplant organs in the futuristic vehicles, capable of reaching more than 200mph.

What they apparently were not prepared for was a distracted motorist who pulled out of a petrol station without looking.

Today, a bandaged and bruised police driver may have had a tough time explaining how he managed to write off one of the force’s prized Lamborghinis when he rammed it so hard into a line of parked cars that one of the stationary vehicles ended up on the police car’s roof.
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Discussion in the Classic Adelaide forums.

Gary Tierney (driver) and David Carra (navigator) have been tragically killed near Forreston in the Hills during the Classic Adelaide car rally event, after their 1974 Porsche 911 Carrera RS left the road and hit a tree.

They were travelling on Norseworthy Road in Forreston near Gumeracha just after 3:30pm, when the car left the track and smashed into a tree, killing both the driver and passenger.

Mr Tierney was a highly-rated tarmac rally competitor and the pair took third place in their Porsche in Targa West, near Perth, in late August.

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Discussion in the Australian speed camera forums.

SPEED-CAMERA operations look set to be privatised in WA, prompting fears that profiteering might overtake road-safety priorities.

Police Minister Rob Johnson revealed yesterday that his staff had been involved in “introductory meetings” with British firm Serco, which wanted to run WA’s multimillion-dollar speed-camera operations.

Mr Johnson admitted that privatising speed and red-light operations was on the Barnett Government’s agenda and was supported by Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan.

But the plan has already drawn fire from the Opposition, which claims that putting the personal details of thousands of WA motorists in the hands of a private operator is unwise.
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Discussion in the hoons and speed camera forums.

YOUNG men commonly feel speeding is okay, but only if they are the one driving, a road safety expert says.

Soames Job, director of the New South Wales Centre for Road Safety, told a Sydney audience the finding was revealed in new research examining the attitudes of NSW drivers towards speeding.

Speaking at the Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, Mr Job said speed was by far the biggest single behavioural factor in serious crashes on the state’s roads.
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Discussion in the Australian luxury car forums.

$15m luxury car scam: Dealer arrested

A LUXURY car dealer has been arrested over an alleged $15 million fraud involving dozens of cars including Bentleys, Porsches, Lamborghinis and Ferraris.

Sid Khoury, who owned The European Car Specialist in Croydon until its collapse in April, was charged with 24 fraud-related offences by Burwood detectives yesterday following a seven-month investigation.

Two other men, Danny Bayeh, 35, and Najib Nehme, 32, were also charged, each on 18 counts related to fraud.
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Discussion in the Australian BMW Hoons forums.

High-heeled hoon has her mother’s BMW impounded for 48 hours

A WOMAN in high-heels has blamed a slip of the foot for travelling at more than twice the limit in her mum’s BMW.
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Have your say in the Aussie Hoon car forums.

Mike Rann announces that hoon cars will be crushed

DETAILED UPDATE: Police will be given the power to crush the cars of hoons, the State Government has announced.

Premier Mike Rann has today announced the police commissioner will be able to direct the Sheriff to destroy cars that have been forfeited.

Discussion in the Australian safety camera forums.

$50m Victoria speed camera blitz aimed to lower road carnage

LEADFOOT motorists face a massive crackdown, with a phalanx of extra fixed and mobile speed cameras to be deployed within weeks.

In the biggest expansion of Victoria’s speed-trap network since the late 1980s, 31 new fixed cameras will be erected and another 22 existing sites upgraded.

And mobile cameras will be snapping away for an extra 3000 hours a month a 50 per cent increase on current hours.

Have your say in the Australian Ferrari Hoon forums.

WA police impound $475k Ferrari California near Toodyay

A PERTH motoring writer has been nabbed allegedly doing twice the speed limit in a rare Ferrari worth nearly $500,000.

Police have impounded the rare Ferrari California being driven by Financial Review motoring writer Rod Easdown.

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