An abandoned car on Orsmby Terrace in San Remo is the most recent addition to an ongoing saga of dumped cars in Mandurah.
San Remo resident Kent Goreham noticed it on Monday, and each time he went to walk his dogs along the footpath during the week, saw the car’s condition deteriorate further.
The car was stickered by rangers asking the vehicle be removed within 24 hours on October 24, but Mr Goreham said that because the car had no number plates, it was obvious nobody was going to collect it.
“If a car is left without number plates, it shouldn’t get the sticker. It’s just common sense,” Mr Goreham said.
Since he first noticed the car, it has been graffitied and pushed into the fence between the road and the sand dunes.
“Of course by Monday it’ll probably be set alight… every time a car gets left for over a week, it gets torched,” Mr Goreham said.
“And if that car gets set on fire, because it’s so close to the sand dunes, it’ll go straight into the bush.”
“This is not good enough,” he said.
“These abandoned vehicles should be removed before they are vandalised, especially when the plates have been removed and the vehicle has quite obviously been dumped.”
The City told Mr Goreham the rangers would remove the car on Monday, but he said he was worried it could be too late.