A MAN has been arrested after he was allegedly clocked driving at nearly 200 kmph on the Mornington Peninsula Freeway in Dingley Village. Police say that they recorded the driver travelling at 198 kmph in the 100 kmph speed limit zone at around 7.30pm on 6 June. Police pulled over the silver Ford sedan just before the Governor Road exit and arrested the driver.The 19-year-old Frankston South man was interviewed in relation to conduct endangering life, dangerous driving, and other traffic offences, police say. He was released and is expected to be charged with numerous driving offences, to be summonsed…
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Compiled by Cameron McCullough A movement to secure the establishment of a new railway with a terminus at Westernport Bay was initiated at a meeting which was held in the Municipal Chambers, Queen street, recently.The meeting was convened as a result of a resolution of the Moorabbin Shire Council.Councillors and landholders representing Moorabbin, Oakleigh, Dandenong, Cranbourne, and Frankston Shires, the Borough of Carrum, and the town of Mentone-Mordialloc attended.A sub-committee of 21 councillors and landholders was elected with a view to urging the establishment of a line half-way between the Mordialloc-Frankston and the Dandenong Cranbourne lines.The proposal under consideration is…
CONSTRUCTION on the $50 million Frankston Basketball Stadium is set to begin at the end of this month.Earlier this year, Frankston Council signed a $50 million contract to rebuild the Seaford stadium. The finished project is expected to feature ten basketball courts, a show court with retractable seating for up to 1000 people, two multi-purpose courts suitable for volleyball, futsal, and badminton, function spaces, a café, and a dedicated gymnastics hall. Last week, Frankston District Basketball Association CEO Wayne Holdsworth announced that construction will get underway on 30 June.“In collaboration with Frankston Council, its building contractor Ireland Brown Constructions, and…
Compiled by Cameron McCullough A motoring party, in charge of a young man, Claude White, joiner, Inkerman street, St. Kilda, spent Monday’s holiday on a trip to Mornington. Liquid refreshment was partaken of before the party left Frankston, and all the hotels on the road were visited. Things went well; however, till Mt. Eliza was reached on the return journey. Here the joy riders evidently reached a stage of dangerous hilarity, for, other motorists, becoming alarmed at their erratic conduct, requested the Mt. Eliza storekeeper to communicate with the Frankston police.This was done, and when the party pulled up outside…
SIX teenagers have been arrested after police spotted them driving an allegedly stolen car in Seaford.Police allege that keys to a Mazda 3 were stolen from a Wantirna gym at around 11.30pm on 3 June. Police quickly arrived and arrested one person and seized a machete.The rest of the group allegedly fled in the Mazda. Police later saw the car travelling south on Eastlink in the Dandenong area about 1am, and allegedly speeding alongside a blue Toyota Echo in Seaford. Using stop sticks, police stopped the cars on Cranbourne Road. The Mazda was allegedly dumped in the vicinity of Moate…