An elderly man has been charged with predatory driving after allegedly hitting two boys riding an e-bike with his car after a prank in a NSW North Coast town.<\/p>\n
Police were told a group of children knocked on a door at a Coffs Harbour home about 8.30pm on Saturday. <\/p>\n
After knocking on the door of the house, the boys ran away from the premises before jumping on e-bikes.<\/p>\n
The prank is commonly referred to as a \u201cding dong ditch\u201d, where someone will run up to a front door and ring the doorbell before fleeing.<\/p>\n
Police allege after the prank, the homeowner got into his car and followed behind the children on their e-bikes. <\/p>\n
The man behind the wheel allegedly mounted the gutter and continued following the boys along the nature strip on Feran Crescent. <\/p>\n
Police allege the then drove into the back of an e-bike, throwing two children into the air. <\/p>\n
The boys, aged 11 and 12, were taken to hospital for treatment of minor injuries and have since been released.<\/p>\n
A short time later, the 78-year-old man was arrested at his Reid Drive home.<\/p>\n
He has been charged with predatory driving and knowingly drive vehicle in manner menaces others.<\/p>\n
He appeared before court on Sunday and was granted conditional bail to appear at court again on Wednesday, September 23. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An elderly man has been charged with predatory driving after allegedly hitting two boys riding an e-bike with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[107794,127065,100087,127083,127079,127070,127080,110815,127082,36507,127060,127066,95604,74814,127076,22,21,19412,4543,27014,21325,1109,13404,127074,31690,127081,127084,37462,127075,39,28744,127078,12224,379,127063,1047,127072,127085,127071,16821,55162,127067,19816,47378,127064,39675,42022,37889,38464,127062,127068,101978,37465,37640,127073,127077,38075,127061,48341,127069,26114,74920,65459,91662,29212,22441],"class_list":["post-80865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-11-and-12","tag-78yo-driver","tag-8-30pm","tag-a-ding-dong-ditch","tag-a-coffs-harbour-home","tag-a-common-prank","tag-a-dangerous-turn","tag-a-door","tag-a-front-door","tag-a-group","tag-a-nsw-north-coast-town","tag-a-prank","tag-a-quiet-residential-street","tag-an-e-bike","tag-an-elderly-man","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-boys","tag-children","tag-coffs-harbour","tag-conditional-bail","tag-court","tag-e-bikes","tag-e-bikes-the-prank","tag-elderly-man","tag-feran-crescent","tag-fleeing-police","tag-his-car","tag-his-reid-drive-home-he","tag-hospital","tag-kids","tag-manner-menaces","tag-minor-injuries","tag-newswire-news","tag-others-he","tag-police","tag-prank","tag-predatory-driving","tag-released-a","tag-saturday","tag-september-23","tag-short-time","tag-sunday","tag-the-children","tag-the-78-year-old-man","tag-the-air","tag-the-back","tag-the-boys","tag-the-door","tag-the-doorbell","tag-the-gutter","tag-the-homeowner","tag-the-house","tag-the-man","tag-the-nature-strip","tag-the-prank","tag-the-premises","tag-the-then","tag-the-wheel","tag-their-e-bikes","tag-treatment","tag-two-boys","tag-two-children","tag-two-kids","tag-vehicle","tag-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}