{"id":921689,"date":"2026-10-09T09:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T09:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/921689\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T09:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T09:52:13","slug":"mclaren-driver-clocked-allegedly-doing-259km-h-on-forrest-highway-in-was-south-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/921689\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren driver clocked allegedly doing 259km\/h on Forrest Highway in WA’s South West"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 21-year-old man has been charged after he was clocked allegedly travelling at 259 kilometres per hour while behind the wheel of a high-performance car in Western Australia’s South West.<\/p>\n

Police say the orange McLaren MA3 coupe was pinged doing 149km\/h above the 110km\/h speed limit along Forrest Highway near Noble Street in Binningup, about 140km south of Perth, on August 12.<\/p>\n

After conducting “extensive inquiries” to identify the driver, police executed a search warrant yesterday at a home in Shenton Park in Perth, where they seized several items.<\/p>\n

\"Two<\/p>\n

The young man was one of several drivers charged for allegedly driving recklessly on WA roads. (ABC South West WA: Bridget McArthur, file photo)<\/p>\n

It led to the young man being charged and the car, which has a top speed of around 325km\/h and the ability to accelerate from 0 to 100km\/h in just 3.2 seconds, being impounded.<\/p>\n

Police said the McLaren has been returned to the owner after it was impounded for 28 days.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police would then decide the fate of the car following the court-imposed punishment, which could include the vehicle being permanently confiscated or even destroyed.<\/p>\n

Another punishment option would be to sell the car, which comes with a lofty price tag of between $255,000 and $400,000, and put the money towards road safety initiatives.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘No margin for error’<\/p>\n

WA Police Commander Mike Peters said the alleged speeds reached by the young driver was “mind blowing”.<\/p>\n

“At 259km\/h, there is no margin for error. A momentary lapse in concentration, a vehicle entering the roadway, or an unexpected hazard would have catastrophic consequences,” he said.<\/p>\n

\"Mike<\/p>\n

Commander Mike Peters and Police Minister Reece Whitby say excessive speeding will not be tolerated on the state’s roads. (ABC News: Nicolas Perpitch)<\/p>\n

Police Minister Reece Whitby described the driver’s alleged behaviour as “unbelievably stupid” and said innocent people were at risk of paying the ultimate price.<\/p>\n

He said police had seen “some of the worst cases of excessive speeding in the state’s history” in recent months.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Roads treated like ‘speedway’<\/p>\n

A total of 553 people were charged with reckless driving offences and 3,075 vehicles were impounded between July 1 and September 30.<\/p>\n

Commander Peters said that worked out to be an average of 55 cars seized every day, adding there had been a “steady increase” in the number of cars impounded over the last three years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"High<\/p>\n

Some of the cars that have recently been seized as a result of a WA police crackdown on reckless and speeding drivers.\u00a0 (ABC News: Nicolas Perpitch)<\/p>\n

“We just will not tolerate excessive, crazy, breakneck speeds that we’ve seen lately,” he said.<\/p>\n

Among those charged recently include a 26-year-old Waikiki man who allegedly reached 197km\/h \u2014 127km\/h above the 70km\/h speed limit \u2014 on Ennis Avenue in Port Kennedy in Perth’s south.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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More than 3,000 vehicles were impounded as part of the blitz. (ABC South West WA: Bridget McArthur, file photo)<\/p>\n

A 23-year-old woman from Beechboro was pinged allegedly doing 133km\/h in a 70km\/h zone in her Land Rover in a residential area on Marshall Road in Malaga in Perth’s north on September 26.<\/p>\n

“If you treat our roads like a speedway, expect WA Police to come after you. Our officers will use every tool available to identify you, take your vehicle off the road and hold you accountable,” Mr Whitby said.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old alleged driver of the McLaren is due to face Bunbury Magistrates Court on October 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 21-year-old man has been charged after he was clocked allegedly travelling at 259 kilometres per hour while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1348,48,17724,489511,489508,43,489510,489507,489513,489514,489515,44,17726,17725,86,1158,140651,97686,489509,41,39,42,40,45,489512],"class_list":["post-921689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-crime","tag-emergency-services","tag-excessive-speeding","tag-extreme-speeds","tag-headlines","tag-mclaren-driver-caught-speeding","tag-mclaren-driver-speeding","tag-mclaren-ma3","tag-mclaren-road-car","tag-mclaren-supercar","tag-news","tag-perth-breaking-news","tag-perth-emergency","tag-perth-news","tag-police","tag-reckless-driving","tag-speeding","tag-speeding-offences","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wa-news","tag-wa-speed-limits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}