Greater Dandenong Teen Arrested: Pedestrian Struck by Allegedly Stolen Car in CBD
Police say the 16-year-old allegedly drove a stolen Ford Escape through the CBD, injuring a woman and narrowly missing marathon runners.
- On Sunday, a 16-year-old boy was arrested after allegedly driving a stolen Ford Escape through Melbourne's CBD and striking a woman near the Melbourne Marathon route.
- The Southbank woman, aged in her 50s, was struck at the intersection of Flinders Street and Elizabeth Street at about 10:45 a.m., suffering non-life-threatening upper body injuries.
- Project Zero Coffee owner Barista Kirk Pearson described the vehicle speeding erratically near Flinders Street Station after narrowly missing marathon runners and performing a U-turn.
- Victoria Police confirmed the incident was not terrorism-related after arresting the Dandenong boy on Beaconsfield Parade in Albert Park following the collision.
- More than 60,000 runners participated in the Melbourne Marathon Festival, which necessitated widespread road closures throughout the city near Flinders Street Station.
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Greater Dandenong teen arrested: Pedestrian struck by allegedly stolen car in CBD
A Greater Dandenong boy has been arrested after a pedestrian was struck in Melbourne’s CBD on Sunday 11 October. The 16-year-old was reportedly driving a stolen Ford Escape east along tram lines on Flinders Street when he struck the pedestrian standing at the intersection of Elizabeth Street, about 10.45am, police say. He U-turned outside Flinders […]
A stolen car hit a woman and barely broke into the Melbourne Marathon track in Australia on the morning of Sunday (11). The driver was a teenager, who advanced with the car up to a distance of less than 10 m from the marathoners, told a witness to presenter Jacqueline Felgate, from local radio station 3AW. "Policemen pulled their weapons, sent everyone down, and the boy turned around and accelerated. All the policemen standing there went after t…
Sydney Morning Herald
Cafe owner describes speeding car near Melbourne Marathon
Barista Kirk Pearson was working at his Flinders Street cafe about 10.30am when a car “just came screaming from Elizabeth Street and hit someone – a pedestrian – in the middle of the road”
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