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Premium Content Subscriber only If you’ve got questions about road safety, general laws or just want to clarify something with police, those questions can be asked over a cuppa on Friday. The Lowood Police are teaming up with the Old Fernvale Bakery for another round of Coffee with a Cop. From 10am until 2pm on Friday, April 23, officers from the Lowood Station will be on hand to answer any questions or have a general chat with members of the community. Lowood’s officer in charge senior sergeant James Bromley said staff from transport department, as well as Queensland fire staff, paramedics and RACQ would also be available. ....
Premium Content Subscriber only THREE Ipswich locals found themselves on the wrong side of the law after they were caught driving dangerously, as police crack down on hooning. The trio, two of whom police say were spotted riding unregistered trail bikes, is among a larger group of offenders causing havoc in the Springfield area. Springfield Police Station Officer in Charge Senior Sergeant Ben Mackenzie said officers had been working with the Ipswich Road Policing Unit to target hoons. He said there was a growing number of unregistered, uninsured and unlicensed trail bike riders damaging local bushland. From time to time we do see an increase. School holidays are always a time and around Christmas, when people have been given new trail bikes or bought them with Christmas money, Senior Sergeant Mackenzie said. ....
Premium Content Subscriber only A Lowood woman will appear in court after she was busted driving under the influence of drugs on Forest Hill Fernvale Road in Lowood on Wednesday. The 42-year-old was intercepted by the Ipswich Road Policing Unit at 11.45am due to her manner of driving, and was found to be carrying children that were unrestrained. Lowood Police Officer-in-Charge Senior Sergeant James Bromley said the woman was also arrested and conveyed to the Ipswich General Hospital for being under the influence of drugs. She was given a notice to appear in Ipswich Magistrates Court on February 23, for driving under the influence of drugs and her licence was immediately suspended. ....
Premium Content Subscriber only FEARS of a deadly collision at the hands of reckless hoons continue to haunt Springfield Lakes residents. Now an almost daily occurrence, careless drivers have turned a suburban Utopia frequented by young families and retirees into a makeshift drag strip vandalised with tyre marks. One concerned resident, who wished to remain anonymous, spoke exclusively with the Queensland Times on Thursday. The man said most instances typically occurred about one or two o clock in the morning on Lakes Entrance Dr. All you can hear is screeching and when you go down the road you can see all the tyre marks where they ve been burned out, he explained. ....