Police hunting reckless motorbike riders

BY JARROD MELMETH 

Police are asking for the publics assistance to help identify three motorbike riders who were riding dangerously in Wallsend.

Police say the trio were caught on camera riding recklessly along Cowper Street around 4pm on Thursday 22 July.

Anyone with information is being urged to contact Newcastle Police on 4926 6599 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

Pictured: The three riders the police are hunting.
Image: Supplied.

Footage of the riders from Newcastle Police.

Calls For Better Motorbike Facilities To Stop Illegal Activity

BY ISABEL EVERETT

A Hunter MP is calling on the State Government to investigate options for better facilities for motorbike riders following a rise in illegal activity.

It comes after two separate incidents over the weekend where a motorcycle was seized after the rider lost control and crashed in the Cessnock CBD.

Another motorcycle was seized after a rider was stopped while carrying an 18-month-old child on his lap while riding.

Police have issued a further warning to riders after receiving a number of complaints of noisy, anti-social and illegal behaviour by riders.

Wallsend MP Sonia Hornery said riders have very few places left where they can ride, especially in the Western Suburbs of Newcastle.

"There are motorbike clubs in the Hunter but none really specifically with land available for that sort of training in the Wallsend electorate, so that's what we're looking for, reaching out to those sorts of facilties that work in the Hunter and in NSW and seeing what we can do here," said Hornery.

Hornery says making more space available for riders would be a good start in combating illegal activity.

"We want bike riders to have a safe place to ride and a place where people can learn. Stockton have some facilities available and I'm going to write to the minister and ask him to look at options to make more land available in the Wallsend area for riders."

Image from the Newcastle Herald

Police Looking for Witnesses After Steel Bolt Shot at Car in Belmont

BY JESSICA ROUSE

Investigations are continuing into an incident over the weekend in Lake Macquarie where a bolt was fired through the rear window of a car.

Police have been told that just before 7pm on Friday (9th September 2017), a Subaru Station Wagon was travelling south along the Pacific Highway at Belmont between Evans Street and Hitchcock Avenue when the driver and his passenger heard a loud bang.

The two 27-year-old's discovered a hole in the rear window of the car, which had also shattered.

They reported the incident at Belmont Police Station and when police looked at the car they found a steel bolt.

Inquiries are continuing and detectives from the Lake Macquarie Local Area Command would like to speak to anyone who was on the Pacific Highway around the time of the incident.

They would particularly like to speak to the rider of a red, white and blue motorbike.

Motorbike accidents throughout the Hunter over the weekend

BY IAN CROUCH and JESSICA ROUSE

Three men were flown to the John Hunter Hospital throughout the weekend, all suffering injuries from three separate incidents.

A 23-year-old man is recovering in hospital with lower back injuries, after crashing his quad bike yesterday afternoon on the sand dunes at Stockton.

The Hunter's Westpac Rescue Helicopter was called to Stockton Beach where they found the man.

Meanwhile, the rescue helicopter was called out to the Buckets Way where a 60-year-old man had sustained a broken leg in a motorcycle accident.

And, the Tamworth-based rescue helicopter flew a 55-year-old man to hospital with chest and facial injuries after he crashed his motorbike at Sandy Hollow.

Motorbike rider lucky to escape high speed crash

BY JESSICA ROUSE

A man is lucky to escape a high speed crash on his motorbike at Kurri Kurri yesterday.

The man was clocked travelling at 160 kilometers an hour on the Hunter Expressway yesterday afternoon by Highway Patrol officers carrying out speed enforcement.

Officers tried to catch up to the bike in the 110 kilometre an hour speed zone, but were unable to do so.

A short time later they found him seriously injured crashing into a guardrail on Barton Street.

The 28-year-old was taken to John Hunter Hospital with multiple leg fractures.

He's yet to be interviewed by police.