Police and vehicle safety inspectors have swept up multiple drivers in a crackdown on modified and noisy vehicles on Sydney’s North Shore.
Northern Sydney Sector Highway Patrol officers, Transport for NSW (TfNSW) vehicle safety inspectors and personnel from the NSW Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conducted another operation on Saturday, November 15 at Milsons Point, on the lower North Shore.
“Due to the high volume of modified and noisy vehicles that inundate the Milsons Point, Blues Point and Kirribilli areas on weekday and weekend nights, an inspection station was set up in Burton Street,” the NSW Police Force said on its Traffic and Highway Patrol Command Facebook page.
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Officers were not only inspecting cars but their drivers too, conducting 70 breath tests and 15 oral fluid tests – with three drivers returning positive oral fluid samples.
All 13 cars inspected by TfNSW inspectors were found to be defective, with six being deemed ‘major grounded’.
Such defect notices are issued if an authorised officer considers the vehicle poses an “imminent and serious safety risk”.
Additionally, EPA personnel identified seven vehicles that didn’t meet noise pollution standards, while a total of 47 traffic infringement notices were also issued.
This isn’t the first time police and TfNSW inspectors have descended on Milsons Point to target illegally modified and defective vehicles.
On August 29, officers set up an inspection station – also on Burton Street – and stopped 43 vehicles, directing 11 to an inspection station.
On that night, officers identified 50 vehicle defects, including illegally modified engines, exhausts, wheels and lights.
A total of 34 infringement notices were issued by police, with TfNSW inspectors issuing four yellow labels, which require vehicles to be returned to their garaged addresses.