A TERRORISED Hoppers Crossing family is calling upon the community to take action against hoons.
Julie Aquilina, a full-time mother of four, said her family had campaigned against the council’s decision to build a speed hump out the front of her house as a way to deter dangerous driving down the street. The family collected petitions from their neighbours, but their calls went unanswered.
The speed hump was built and the hoons got worse. Mrs Aquilina said the reckless drivers were using the speed hump to launch their car off, “burning rubber” on top of the speed hump and often driving on her nature strip in an effort to not be slowed down by the device.
“I don’t think the current road treatments that they use to deter speedsters and hoons is very effective, I think it’s more ineffective,” Mrs Aquilina said. “They (the council) really didn’t take on board anything that we had to say.
“We said to them that this is going to lead to more hoon driving, we said straight away that it’s not going to work.”
But the Wyndham City Council acting director of corporate services Scott Walker said speed humps were effective at slowing dangerous drivers down.
“Speed humps are a recognised traffic treatment for reducing the speed of motorists and are demonstrated to be affective,” Mr Walker said.
“Traffic treatments such as speed humps are designed to reduce the speed of the majority of motorists and should not be removed based on the illegal activity of a minority of drivers.”
