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Teen girl charged with street racing - at 160km

By David Barrett

January 27, 2009 12:00am

A TEENAGE girl on P-plates was behind the wheel of a car allegedly caught street racing a carload of boys at speeds of up to 160km/h.

The two groups of friends were in separate vehicles when police in an unmarked car allege they spotted the P-platers racing on the Princes Highway at Bombo, south of Sydney.

The drivers - Candice Alysa Robson, from Shell Cove and Fouzi Rabay, of Kiama Downs, both aged 19 - had their cars confiscated for three months and are facing criminal charges. Their licences were also suspended on the spot.

Police allege Rabay had two male passengers in his Holden Commodore while he was racing Robson, who was driving a Nissan Skyline, with two female passengers, about 9pm on Sunday.

Both have been charged with street racing, dangerous driving and exceeding the speed limit by more than 45km/h.

Rabay's father Sam, described his son's behaviour as "stupid" yesterday and said his son was lucky not to have killed someone.

At his home yesterday Mr Rabay, 50, said his son had not told him of the incident until he was asked where the car was yesterday afternoon.

"I feel really upset about this - I didn't bring him up to behave like this," Mr Rabay said. "My son was lucky not to have had a serious accident or killed some innocent people from his own stupidity.

"I really apologise for his behaviour. I apologise to the public and I apologise to the police."

Superintendent Mick Plotecki from Lake Illawarra police yesterday said driving dangerously over the long weekend period was "sheer stupidity". "This sort of behaviour defies belief," he said.

"We're talking about street racing on a public street over a long weekend. This is a time when we've got more families on the road - it's sheer stupidity."

Speaking on the phone to The Daily Telegraph, Fouzi Rabay said it was appropriate that police should confiscate his car.

"We were just being stupid," he said. "But it's nobody else's fault. I've got to take the consequences."

Robson could not be contacted for comment yesterday.

Both vehicles were yesterday locked up in the police holding yards at Albion Park.

The P-platers are due to face Kiama Local Court on March 19

Great.....more P-platers smearing shit over the p-plater image.......

oh well..........the laws just gonna get tougher for now anyways....

i think raising the Legal age of driving to 18 or 20 will also help.

as age has a big impact on a drivers behaviour....

I don't think 20 year olds are any brighter than 18 year olds. They're still full of youthful vim. If you want to wait until people get over being excitable and doing retarded things, you'd have to raise the minimum driving age to somewhere in the 40's.

When people get access to a new thing, they tend to go nuts with it. Familiarity breeds ambivalence. Knowledge leads to competence. In my opinion all that will happen if you increase the driving age to 20 is you'll get more 20 year olds crashing.

I don't think 20 year olds are any brighter than 18 year olds. They're still full of youthful vim. If you want to wait until people get over being excitable and doing retarded things, you'd have to raise the minimum driving age to somewhere in the 40's.

When people get access to a new thing, they tend to go nuts with it. Familiarity breeds ambivalence. Knowledge leads to competence. In my opinion all that will happen if you increase the driving age to 20 is you'll get more 20 year olds crashing.

yeah i suppose

but then again...as i said....the power restrictions was the best thing the government ever bought out.....

the power restrictions was the best thing the government ever bought out.....

Is that because more P platers died after they were brought out?

As someone who doesn't disagree with the core principles of VHEMT, the idea of wiping out humans of breeding age doesn't bother me as much as it does the hysterically illogical Mothers Against etc movement.

Is that because more P platers died after they were brought out?

As someone who doesn't disagree with the core principles of VHEMT, the idea of wiping out humans of breeding age doesn't bother me as much as it does the hysterically illogical Mothers Against etc movement.

well what can you do........

whats done is done... one after the other

f%!k me, just clicked the google link to mothers against, they have a bloody old hens club against everything, I think alot of this falls on the individual person, and yeh i try to get myself in the drivers seat whenever possible cause it scares me the lack of concentration people put into driving regardless of p plate or not, some of them cant keep in their lanes cause they are to busy focusing on anything else, the food they are eating, tehir electric razor, their lipstick, the kids in the back- the road is infront of you not behind you mum, the phone, the mate next to them, i could go on forever sorry but people just shit me somtimes

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