By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
A DRIVER who unleashed 60-metre burnouts after he left a milk bar has been admonished by a magistrate for his immaturity.
Mark Blasius, 36, who is married with three young daughters, had
no explanation for the hoon behaviour except that he “wasn’t thinking
straight’’.
Blasius was charged with dangerous driving and making unnecessary
noise after excessively spinning his tyres and losing traction in his
car as he pulled out of a milk bar parking bay in Cleeland Street,
Dandenong, on the morning of December 22.
Police prosecutor Senior Constable Anthony Ciardullo told
Dandenong Magistrates Court last Monday that Blasius had executed the
burnout near Casey Family Clinic and people waiting at a bus shelter. He
left 60-metre tyre skidmarks.
The car was impounded and it cost Blasius $800 to get it back 30 days later.
His lawyer, Despina Djumas, said Blasius could not explain “his error of judgment”.
Magistrate Doug Bolster, who noted Blasius was a repeat offender, observed: “You’d reckon he’d be past this sort of thing.
“You don’t have to drive like that. You don’t get skidmarks by
themselves. You don’t need much to go wrong to collide with someone else
on the footpath or coming the other way.”
Asked why he lost traction, Blasius told the court: “I don’t have
an explanation why I did it. I took off from the milk bar and didn’t
realise it was that bad. I wasn’t thinking straight.”
Blasius was fined $1000 and his licence was suspended for six months.
