A former Nowra man who pleaded guilty to two counts of reckless driving among a host of other traffic offences has escaped a jail term, been fined more than $1700 and order to perform 150 hours of community service.
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Allen Oakes, 25, of Granville in Sydney, faced a variety of charges including two counts of reckless driving, two counts of residing in a place for more than three months and not changing his licence details, driving an uninsured and unregistered vehicle, displaying unauthorised number plates and two counts of possessing unauthorised number plates.
Court papers said the two reckless driving charges stem from separate incidents in Nowra, one on July 20, 2016 and the other on March 31 this year.
In the March 31 incident he drove a Holden Commodore through a red light at the intersection of Stuart and Kalandar streets, Nowra before he was stopped by police in Wallace Street.
He was also charged over various other offences on June 6 this year.
In Nowra Local Court Magistrate Gabriel Fleming placed Oakes on a 10-month suspended sentence, order he perform 150 hours community service, disqualified him from driving for three years and fined him $1718.
