Tiffany Bailey to be sentenced for high-speed police pursuit across Central Coast and Lake Macquarie

A woman led police on a dangerous high-speed pursuit across multiple suburbs on the Central Coast and Lake Macquarie. Road spikes didn’t even stop her, but when she crashed police pounced.

Instead of stopping for a random breath test, a former Central Coast woman led police on a dangerous high-speed pursuit across several Central Coast and Lake Macquarie suburbs before crashing the vehicle.

Tiffany May Bailey, 28 – formerly of Berkeley Vale – and a man were in a Holden Commodore that failed to stop on River Rd, Wyong close to midnight on April 13 last year.

Tiffany Bailey outside Belmont Local Court. She has pleaded guilty to a high speed pursuit spanning across Central Coast and Lake Macquarie suburbs in April 2021. Picture: Amy Ziniak

Police facts detailed how the vehicle was covertly monitored by a police helicopter, before it stopped at a home in Killarney Vale, where the male driver jumped out and ran inside.

It’s then Bailey moved to the driver’s seat, waiting for the man to return, before she took off at high-speed, as the vehicle was again tracked from above for another 79km.

Police also pursued the vehicle through Wyong, Wadalba, Kanwal, Lake Haven, Charmhaven, Gorokan, Canton Beach, Toukley and Noraville, travelling at dangerous speeds, before the pursuit was called off because the vehicle drove on the wrong side of the road.

Police began pursuing the vehicle again at about 12.30am, this time in Warners Bay, where Bailey continued to ignore calls from police to stop.

Police facts said road spikes were deployed causing multiple tyres to deflate, but despite this, the pair continued attempts to evade police travelling on The Esplanade.

Tiffany Bailey was driving in a high-speed pursuit in April, 2021. She will be sentenced at Port Macquarie Court. Picture: Amy Ziniak

But soon after Bailey lost control of the vehicle, striking a gutter before they were both arrested and taken to Belmont Police Station.

The man was charged with police pursuit and driving at speed manner dangerous.

Bailey has pleaded guilty to police pursuit and driving at a speed manner dangerous, while a charge of possessing a knife in a public place was withdrawn.

She fronted Belmont Local Court on Friday to be sentenced, but a sentencing assessment report was ordered and the matter was sent to Port Macquarie where Bailey now lives with her mother in Wauchope.

Bailey also has two other charges of driving with an illicit drug in December last year and February, where tests confirmed she had methamphetamine and cannabis in her system while behind the wheel.

She will be sentenced for all charges in Port Macquarie on September 28.