--- title: Back to the Future Day: Australia's Hoverboard Unit description: Police in Australia issued a police report Wednesday morning regarding a 17-year-old man crashing a silver sedan doing 88 m.p.h. canonical: https://time.com/4080921/back-to-the-future-day-australia-police-hoverboard/ author: Mark Rivett-Carnac article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-21T08:53:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:57:25.239Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Australia's Hoverboard Unit Investigates Inexplicable Crash og:description: The driver of the silver sedan was doing 88 m.p.h. og:url: https://time.com/4080921/back-to-the-future-day-australia-police-hoverboard/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt950414bb3f7cb3e6/69886919a988caabc36b4e3d/img_1808da-large.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: IMG_1808da-Large og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Australia's Hoverboard Unit Investigates Inexplicable Crash twitter:description: The driver of the silver sedan was doing 88 m.p.h. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt950414bb3f7cb3e6/69886919a988caabc36b4e3d/img_1808da-large.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # In Honor of _Back to the Future_ Day, Australia's Hoverboard Unit Investigates Curious Crash > Sponsored content. 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Steven James Snyder, Techland's resident movie geek, outlines the top 5 most under-rated sci-fi movies of all time_ by [Mark Rivett-Carnac](https://time.com/author/mark-rivett-carnac/) ## Mark Rivett-Carnac Oct 21, 2015 8:53 AM UTC  Mount Isa's Hoverboard Unit rushes to the scene in this edited picture, Oct. 21, 2015 Mount Isa's Hoverboard Unit rushes to the scene in this edited picture, Oct. 21, 2015Queensland Police, Mount Isa by [Mark Rivett-Carnac](https://time.com/author/mark-rivett-carnac/) ## Mark Rivett-Carnac Oct 21, 2015 8:53 AM UTC Police in Queensland, Australia issued an urgent police [report](http://mypolice.qld.gov.au/mountisa/2015/10/21/traffic-crash-mount-isa-cbd/) Wednesday morning regarding a 17-year-old man crashing a silver sedan doing 88 m.p.h into a power pole near the cinema. “Investigations into the vehicle and what a flux capacitor is, are ongoing,” read the blotter from Mount Isa’s Hoverboard Unit. It also noted the driver’s license “expired over 30 years ago.” This spoof is just one of many [paying tribute](http://time.com/4075114/back-to-the-future-toyota-ad/) to the movie _Back to the Future Part II_ on Wednesday. Fans everywhere are [celebrating](http://time.com/4078578/back-to-the-future-day-doc-brown-facebook/) Oct. 21, 2015, or “Back to the Future Day,” which is the date Marty McFly and [Doc Brown](http://time.com/4080858/back-to-the-future-day-doc-brown-message/?xid=homepage) travel to in the 1989 cinema classic. Mount Isa’s police report is modeled from a pivotal moment in the movie when the characters accelerated a modified DeLorean to the critical 88 m.p.h. it needed to travel through time. Everyone in Mount Isa seemed to join in on the stunt. Referring to some of the movie’s plot points, theater owner Jodi Saunders said the driver “wanted to know when we would be playing _Jaws 19_,” and Mayor Tony McGrady said “repairs underway to save the clock tower.” The police confirmed their sense of humor with a edited picture of officers rushing to the scene on hoverboards. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4080921/back-to-the-future-day-australia-police-hoverboard/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4080921/back-to-the-future-day-australia-police-hoverboard/"},"headline":"In Honor of Back to the Future Day, Australia's Hoverboard Unit Investigates Curious Crash","datePublished":"2015-10-21T08:53:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:57:25.239Z","description":"“Investigations into the vehicle and what a flux capacitor is, are ongoing”","url":"https://time.com/4080921/back-to-the-future-day-australia-police-hoverboard/","keywords":["movies","Australia","police","Back to the Future"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt950414bb3f7cb3e6/69886919a988caabc36b4e3d/img_1808da-large.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mark Rivett-Carnac","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/mark-rivett-carnac/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt950414bb3f7cb3e6/69886919a988caabc36b4e3d/img_1808da-large.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"IMG_1808da-Large","caption":"Mount Isa's Hoverboard Unit rushes to the scene in this edited picture, Oct. 21, 2015","creditText":"Queensland Police, Mount Isa","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4080921/back-to-the-future-day-australia-police-hoverboard/","name":"In Honor of Back to the Future Day, Australia's Hoverboard Unit Investigates Curious Crash"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Top 5 Underrated Sci-Fi Movie Masterpieces","description":"Steven James Snyder, Techland's resident movie geek, outlines the top 5 most under-rated sci-fi movies of all time","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/xe99vdU4/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2010-01-11T22:26:40.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/xe99vdU4.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4080921/back-to-the-future-day-australia-police-hoverboard/","duration":"PT4M45S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4080921/back-to-the-future-day-australia-police-hoverboard/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```