A learner-driver has been issued fines of $4,324 and his license suspended after he was detected allegedly driving at more than twice the speed limit before crashing into a house at Regents Park yesterday.
Officers attached to Auburn Highway Patrol were conducting speed enforcement duties on Nottinghill Road about 5.10pm on Monday, November 18, when they detected an SUV allegedly being driven at 107km/h in a signposted 50km/h zone.
Police turned around to follow the vehicle but found the driver had left the road, crashed through a fence and into the garage of a home only metres away.
The driver, a 19-year-old man, was arrested at the scene and subjected to roadside breath and drug tests, both of which were negative.
The man was then issued with fines totalling for the offences of ‘learner-driver estimated speed limit above 45km/h’, ‘learner driver not accompanied’, and ‘not display L-plates’.
The fines total $4324 and eight points. His permit was suspended for six months.
Neither the driver or the 86-year-old woman who lived in the home were injured; however, the crash caused substantial structural damage to the garage and front right corner of the building.
Ellie Busby is a news reporter for Western Sydney Publishing Group. A graduate of the University of Hertfordshire and Western Sydney University, she is a journalism Major. Ellie has worked with Universal Media, The Cova Project and for a range of other organisations. In 2024, Ellie was named Young Writer of the Year at the Mumbrella Publish Awards.