Three men appeared for the second time at Dundee Sheriff Court on five charges of trying to lure a total of seven females, including a 15-year-old girl, into their car.
One of the men is also accused of a further six road traffic charges, including dangerous driving at excessive speeds, striking a police officer to his injury with the car and crashing the car into a barrier on the Dundee-Perth dual carriageway.
All three men, from the Kent area, were remanded in custody after appearing in private before Sheriff Tom Hughes.
Miguel Cover, 31, of Brockman Rise, Bromley, Christopher Stevens, 23, of Edinburgh, and Michael Sandford, 25, Swallowtail Close, Bromley, are accused of, on January 9, at Strathmartine Road, Keswick Terrace and East Marketgait, behaving in a threatening or abusive manner likely to cause fear or alarm by approaching a lone juvenile female and attempting to entice her to enter their vehicle and make inappropriate comments to her and approaching four other females and attempting to entice them into their vehicle and make inappropriate comments to them.
They are also accused of asking two other women for directions and making racist comments.
Cover also appeared on six road traffic offences, including driving dangerously and, having been instructed to turn off his engine, driving off at speed and colliding with PC Robert Young, striking him to his injury, failing to stop and give details, failing to report the accident, failing to stop when required to by police officers, and on the A90, at the Swallow roundabout and at Kinfauns, failing to stop when required to do so by police officers.
He is further accused of driving dangerously at excessive speeds, passing a vehicle on the inside lane, losing control of the vehicle and colliding with a barrier.
All three appeared separately in private, made no plea or declaration and were remanded in custody after being fully committed for trial.