Xzavier Price: Mooroolbark hoon speeds at 143km/h while on bail

While he might look flash in photos, this young scallywag isn’t so flash on the road with a string of wild life-threatening antics.

Xzavier Price has been sentenced to a maximum of two years’ jail.

A young man who was behind a hit-and-run that left a woman with life-altering injuries went on to cause another crash, then led a wild police chase at 143km/h.

Xzavier Price, 21, was sentenced to a minimum 18 months’ jail before Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Friday, having pleaded guilty to a long list of charges including reckless conduct endangering life.

Price left a 58-year-old woman suffering serious neurological symptoms after he caused a crash while driving a Toyota Kluger he’d stolen in August 2019, then fled the scene.

The woman fronted Melbourne Magistrates’ Court in September 2019 to tell of the significant memory loss, concussive symptoms and balance issues she was suffering a year after the crash.

Xzavier Price drove dangerously while on bail.

The victim revealed to the court her injuries had forced her to resign from her full time job as an office manager.

Price pleaded guilty to the charges surrounding the crash at the 2019 court hearing, as well as charges for a range of earlier incidents, before he was released from custody on a deferral of sentence, having served 13 months behind bars.

But learning the impact of his crimes — and the jail time — didn’t stop him from putting road users at risk again.

Price was then on bail and disqualified from driving when he slammed a borrowed car into a light pole on a Cheltenham median strip on January 2.

He was seen fleeing the scene by a witness who sought to help him.

Price then stole a car in Berwick on January 27 and sped away from police who tried to pull him over, running a red light.

Price did the same when police found him speeding in the stolen car in Montrose late on January 29.

The court heard he sped up to 143km/h in an 80km/h zone as police cars and a police helicopter chased him.

Xzavier Price is about to become eligible for parole.

He ran red lights and drove erratically, almost hitting a train at the level crossing on Station St, Mordialloc, before he ran over police stop sticks in Cheltenham.

The car slowed when Price reached Beach Rd, Sandringham, and police pulled up alongside it.

Price jumped out of the car, causing it to hit the police car.

He then ran and was found hiding in someone’s yard, with drugs, scales, tools and $1775.

The Mooroolbark man also pleaded guilty to a number of other incidents at Friday’s hearing, including when he falsely reported that his car had been stolen on Christmas Eve 2018, when actually he had totalled it on EastLink by driving into a barrier.

Price was also repeatedly caught with weapons and drugs in 2019.

The court heard Price had endured the tragic losses of his mother and stepmother as a child and was a drug user.

Magistrate Bentley said Price’s age and rehabilitation was the primary consideration in sentencing.

“The main thing is, he’s a young man,” Mr Bentley said.

But Mr Bentley said was giving Price the heaviest sentence he’d ever given a 21-year-old due to the seriousness of the crimes.

He said Price would be likely to be released on parole very shortly in the coming weeks.

Price was sentenced to a maximum of two years’ jail, having already served 533 days.

His licence was disqualified for a further two years.