13HOON (134666) was launched in December 2010 to provide Queenslanders with an easy to remember central contact point to report drivers performing dangerous, reckless or anti-social behaviour on our roads.

What is hooning?

Hooning may include donuts, drifting, fishtails, revving of engines, screeching brakes, skidding, burn outs, time trials/street racing and rolling road blocks.

What are the dangers of hooning?

Hooning behaviour, even performed at low speeds, may cause the driver to lose control of their vehicle, leave the roadway and collide with a fixed object or a pedestrian.

The speeds associated with street racing coupled with driver inexperience can lead to fatalities.

How to report hooning

When a member of the community calls 13HOON, a trained call taker will record details such as the vehicle registration, vehicle characteristics, time and location of the illegal activity and a description of the behaviour. This information will be relayed to police for follow up.

For hooning incidents currently underway and where there is no immediate danger to anyone by having police attend, information will be forwarded to a Police Communications Centre to task police for response.

How does this report help police?

The information provided to 13HOON is relayed to police for further investigation. This allows police to identify problem locations and take action to address the problem.

For non-emergencies, a call to 13HOON takes pressure off Triple Zero (000) call centre operators across the state while still providing the opportunity to report hooning behaviour.

What are the penalties for hooning?

Under current anti-hoon laws police can impound a vehicle for 48 hours after a first offence, up to three months for a second offence, or permanently for a third offence.

Anyone with information which could assist police with their investigations should contact Crime Stoppers anonymously via 1800 333 000 or crimestoppers.com.au 24hrs a day.

Crime Stoppers is a charitable community volunteer organisation working in partnership with the Queensland Police Service.

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