Feb 21, 2021 | Community, Crime

Jimboomba Police target illegal trail bikes in Flagstone

  • Rod Stephen is a former television journalist and has worked as Foreign Editor for the Seven Network, Australian Bureau Chief for TV3 New Zealand, UK correspondent for Seven and ABC radio and as a producer for Reuters TV in London as well as SBS in Sydney and Melbourne before returning to Brisbane to work at 4BC.

Jimboomba police are cracking down on trail bike riders for traffic offences and for using vacant land and parkland around Flagstone without permission.

Nearby residents and the owners of the vacant land have reported misuse of their properties by hoons

Anyone using that land without permission can be charged with offences such as trespass, excessive motorbike noise and for having a defective vehicle.

Jimboomba Police recently seized a black unregistered trail bike alleged to have been used in numerous hooning incidents around the Flagstone area.

It’s alleged the trail bike rider had been causing a nuisance and raising safety concerns around worksites and other road users and failing to abide by road rules.

Investigations are continuing in relation to the traffic related offences.

Two days after that trail bike was seized by police, officers saw another trail bike rider performing a dangerous manoeuvre. 

They spotted him riding past them along Trailblazer Drive, Flagstone  in the opposite direction.

Police managed to intercept the motorcycle as it entered a residential address. 

Although the man told police that he was helping his friend who had fallen off in bush land nearby, he did not hold a motorcycle class licence and was also riding a bike that was not registered or insured.

The  31-year-old Flagstone man is due to appear in the Beaudesert Magistrates Court on the second of next month in relation to the alleged traffic offences.

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