Cop car rammed, Gracemere properties damaged by stolen truck
Police are searching for the driver of a stolen truck after he rammed a police car and left a trail of damage across two properties in the Rockhampton region.
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Police are searching for the driver of a stolen truck after he rammed a police car and left a trail of damage in a reckless rampage across two properties in Gracemere.
A Queensland Police Service spokeswoman said a crew in an unmarked car were uninjured after their car rolled over into a ditch after it was reversed into by a white Hino cab truck at 1.35pm in the Bouldercombe area, 20 minutes south of Rockhampton.
She said the police crew had sighted the truck along Poison Creek Road as they patrolled the area after reports of the vehicle being stolen from a Gracemere address about 11.50pm.
The truck has then driven into the police vehicle before fleeing the scene.
Officers were not physically injured from the incident and police are appealing to anyone with CCTV or dashcam vision of the truck to come forward.
The residents of a property on Middle Road were away from home when they got a call from police and neighbours about 1.40pm to inform them the Hino truck had driven through their property.
The resident said he arrived back at the house shortly afterwards to find the stolen truck had smashed through their front gate, snapping off a strainer post, driven through their garden bed beside the house and then burst through their back fence into the neighbour’s yard.
The Middle Road resident said the neighbours, who were home at the time, heard the truck roaring down the side of their house before it was dumped nearby in Douglas Street.
He said the truck had knocked down 40m of his back fence.
It said the cost of repairs all-round would be expensive.
Multiple police vehicles were seen to be patrolling at 2.40pm the area near where the truck was dumped.
A tow truck had also turned up to pick up the truck.
Originally published as Cop car rammed, Gracemere properties damaged by stolen truck
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