A sideshow in Stockton over the weekend sent one person to the hospital after one of the cars lost control.
Sideshows are illegal car shows that often lead to blocked parking lots, streets, or highways. Participants, often by the dozens, crowd around a handful of vehicles that perform donuts.
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New fines for people involved in vehicle sideshows won approval from the Modesto City Council.
It voted 7-0 on Tuesday, July 11, to fine drivers and passengers up to $3,500 for taking part in these displays of speed and stunts. People who organize or promote sideshows could pay as much as $3,000. Those who just watch could be fined up to $2,500.
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Turlock hopes that a new ordinance is going to help quash a growing problem with sideshows in the city.
“It is a faction where they start in one area, and they move down or up 99,” said Mayor Amy Bublak. “And we get caught in the middle, and they’re like, ‘Hey, let’s stop in Turlock and do this.'”
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A teenage girl was arrested Saturday night in an illegal sideshow in Merced where 50 to 80 spectators were involved, according to the Merced Police Department.
The 16-year-old girl was arrested “for exhibition of speed, driving without a license and resisting officers,” the police department announced on its Facebook page late Saturday.
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Stanislaus County sheriff’s deputies broke up a large illegal sideshow at the former Crows Landing Naval Air Station on Sunday night and arrested one driver who fled at speeds over 100 mph, authorities said.
The department’s helicopter unit spotted about 200 vehicles at the airfield on Bell Road south of Patterson just before 7 p.m., said Sgt. Luke Schwartz.
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