An unlicensed teenager was caught driving more than 30km/hr over the speed limit on a Central Queensland highway.
Janaya Paige Ebony Port, 18, pleaded guilty at Blackwater Magistrates Court on February 5 to disobeying the speed limit and driving a motor vehicle without a driver s licence (never held licence).
Police Prosecutor Sergeant Paul Cramp said police were patrolling the Capricorn Hwy about 4pm on January 15 when they saw a vehicle travelling towards them at 131km/hr, according to the radar.
The highway was a signed 100km/hr zone.
Police intercepted the vehicle and spoke to Port, who was driving.
She said she had just overtaken another vehicle but knew she shouldn’t be speeding.
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A Triple-0 caller confessed to the operator that the car he was driving was stolen.
On Friday last week, Anakie police received a call at 3.15am from a stranded motorist, who reported a single-vehicle car crash on the Capricorn Highway at Anakie.
The teenage boy had lost control of the vehicle while travelling west and ended up stuck in bushland, near Withersfield Road, about 50km west of Emerald.
Police claimed he admitted to stealing the car earlier that morning.
Officers from Anakie Police Station attended the scene and found the crashed car, which had been taken during an alleged unlawful entry into an Emerald business.
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Subscriber only Representatives from Rockhampton Regional Council called more state and federally-funded upgrades to the Capricorn Highway an election issue on Thursday. A suite of additions to the highway already due in mid-2021 includes intersection upgrades, wider roads, and overtaking lanes, but acting mayor Neil Fisher said more could be done for the sake of all towns along the route. Capricorn Highway has to be one of the most strategic, important pieces of road infrastructure anywhere in Queensland, he said, and we know that the economic benefits not only for our part of the region, but also in growing the Galilee Basin, servicing the Bowen Basin, servicing our cattle industry, developing our tourist industry, particularly the drive tourism, but also there we need to actually have that connectivity that s still missing.