ON Tuesday (November 29) local police were monitoring a school zone when an unaccompanied teenager on her “L plates” raced past and then crashed into a tree nearby. 
The 18-year-old female was driving on Ellerston Avenue in Isabella Plains at 8.10am when police detected her traveling at 58km/h in a school zone.
Police directed the woman to stop but she continued to speed past and was not pursued.
ACT police later found the car not far away after the woman had collided into a tree.
Officer-in-charge of Tuggeranong Police Station, station sergeant Chris Meagher says: “This driver behaviour is abhorrent. It is a miracle that no children were hurt while they were walking to school that morning.”
The woman will face court next year for exceeding the speed limit, failing to stop, not displaying “L plates”, driving unaccompanied and drug driving.
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