A motorbike rider was chased by police after he rode off on them when they tried to stop him in Mooroopna, a court has heard.
Dean Kempinski, 46, of St Germains, pleaded guilty in Shepparton Magistrates’ Court to failing to stop on police direction, speeding by between 10km/h and 25km/h, driving while disqualified, using an unregistered vehicle, fraudulently using number plates and driving while suspended.
Prosecutor Leading Senior Constable Anna Hanlon told the court police clocked Kempinski doing 124km/h in a 100km/h zone on MacIsaac Rd, Mooroopna, between Ardmona and Turnbull Rds at 10.15am on August 18 last year.
The court heard when police put their red and blue lights on, Kempinski accelerated away from them.
After he turned into Excelsior Ave, police turned their lights off, but continued to follow him at a distance.
Police caught up with him after he stopped at a McLennan St property.
They found his licence had been disqualified five and a half months earlier for six months for a traffic infringement.
The motorbike also had homemade false registration plates on it and the real registration had expired.
The motorbike was impounded.
Leading Sen Constable Hanlon told the court that when he was spoken to by police, Kempinski told them he had ridden off on them because he was “scared” and “trying to get to work”.
“I didn’t realise the power of the bike,” Kempinski told police.
The court also heard that in a separate incident, Kempinski was picked up driving on a suspended driver’s licence in Morrish Rd, Shepparton, on April 25 last year.
Leading Sen Constable Hanlon said that when spoken to by police at the time, he said he thought his driver’s licence was fine and had not received mail from VicRoads about the suspension.
Keminski’s solicitor Anthony Coote said his client had taken steps to get his licence back since then, and a licence disqualification would make it difficult for him to get to work.
Kempinski was fined $1750 and he was disqualified from driving for six months.