Driving without hands on wheel
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23rd July, 2013
A driver has been remanded in custody following a string of driving
offences, including driving without a steering wheel, allegedly committed yesterday morning in Adelaide's north eastern
suburbs.
At 8.25am, police from Holden Hill Traffic Enforcement Section observed a white Holden sedan driving dangerously on
two blown tyres on Sudholz Road, Gilles Plains. When police stopped the vehicle, they saw there was no steering wheel
fitted and the driver was using a pair of vice grips to steer the car.
Police checks revealed the vehicle was unregistered and uninsured and already subject to a defect notice not to be
driven on the road.
Further investigations led police to believe the vehicle had just been involved in a hit-run crash in Folland Avenue,
Northfield only minutes earlier. Fortunately no one was injured as a result of the rear-end collision.
The driver behind the steering wheel-less Holden, a 38-year-old Northfield man, was allegedly driving while
disqualified and returned a positive drug test to methyl amphetamine and cannabis.
He was arrested and charged with driving without due care, failing to stop at the scene of a crash, driving in a
manner dangerous, driving while disqualified, unregistered, uninsured and contrary to defect and breaching his bail
conditions. He has appeared in court and was remanded in custody.
Source: South Australia Police.
E&OE.
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