By BRIDGET SCOTT
A PAKENHAM resident is calling for action to be taken against a hoon who wreaks havoc outside her window every night.
Barbara lives on the corner of a roundabout at Eagle Drive and Ahern Road in Pakenham and fears for her life each night.
The resident says she can barely remember a time in the past 12 months when the driver hasn’t torn through the roundabout at about 1am in the morning.
“Every single morning they go around the roundabout at about 130km, I would say,” she said.
Barbara said she had contacted her local police and the council, but to no avail.
She said her neighbours were also concerned about the driver, who goes around the roundabout six or seven times before speeding off.
Barbara said ideally she and her neighbours would like police to patrol the area, but she is now going to the lengths of installing her own cameras outside her house.
“I want them to patrol the area but they keep telling me they don’t have the resources,” she said.
“This person is going to end up coming through one of our houses.”
Members from the Cardinia Highway Patrol were unavailable to comment on the issue.
While Barbara and her neighbours fear for their safety, the residents are also tired of the noise the hoon makes.
“It wakes you up and it’s hard to get back to sleep after that,” Barbara said.
Barbara’s neighbour Lyn is also fed up with the speeding drivers, and would like to see the installation of cameras or speed bumps in the area.
The Cardinia Shire Council said the existing roundabouts along Ahern Road were designed to deter speeding.
The local council do not hold any jurisdiction over this area and encourage anyone to report anti-social and inappropriate driving to the Hoon Hotline.
Lyn said they were simply looking for something to slow them down, saying people ’fly’ down the road.
She hopes that the local council may be able to offer assistance.
“We are ratepayers so they should be able to do something,” she said.
