Teen loaned car for burn-out
A Christchurch teen has lost his licence for letting someone else do a burn-out in his car.
Police said that even if he wasn’t the driver, there was still a road safety issue and he should lose his licence.
Christchurch District Court Judge Brian Callaghan accepted that, and disqualified 19-year-old Kane Dylan Ramsay, a mechanic from New Brighton, for two months and fined him $350.
The judge reduced the disqualification because Ramsay did not do the burn-out himself.
The teenager admitted a charge of aiding an unknown person to make the car undergo a “sustained loss of traction”.
Police found him in the passenger seat of his car about 1.40am on August 15, in Taurus Place, Bromley. The police could smell burnt rubber, and there was melted rubber on the rear tyres.
Ramsay told them that someone he didn’t know had paid him $20 to let him do a burn-out.
Defence counsel David Stringer said Ramsay had been “basically in a drunken stupor” when he let some random person he thought was named “Josh” – wearing a black hoodie and black pants – do the burn-out.
He asked for special circumstances to be considered to reduce the disqualification because Ramsay would sometimes need to drive for his job as a mechanic.
Police prosecutor Chris Hunt said the new disqualification needed to start from October 11 because Ramsay’s licence was already suspended. “He’s on a learner’s licence and if he drives for work we are going to ping him again,” Mr Hunt told the judge.
Judge Callaghan imposed the penalties and told Ramsay it was a stupid thing to do.
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