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HomeIndyLate night crash leads to multiple charges

Late night crash leads to multiple charges

Police have charged a man with more than a dozen offences, including recklessly endangering life, after he crashed an allegedly stolen car on Wednesday.

The 19-year-old man was driving the allegedly stolen Holden station wagon when it collided with a Toyota sedan about 12am.

The driver attempted to flee on foot but police arrested him nearby.

Paramedics took the occupants of the Toyota to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Police charged the man with:

• two counts of aggravated burglary,

• two counts of theft of a motor vehicle,

• four counts of theft from a motor vehicle,

• theft,

• two counts of driving in a manner dangerous,

• reckless conduct endangering life,

• reckless conduct endangering serious injury,

• unlicensed driving, and

• possessing methylamphetamine.

The man faced Geelong Magistrates’ Court where a magistrate remanded him in custody to appear again on 19 June.

 

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