Teens charged over terrifying crash involving Hawthorn champion Jordan Lewis’ car

Two teenagers accused of threatening two drivers with an axe before flipping their car and crashing into Hawthorn champion Jordan Lewis’ SUV have been charged by police.

Two teenagers accused of threatening two drivers with an axe before flipping their car and crashing into Hawthorn champion Jordan Lewis’ vehicle have been charged by police.

Detectives allege the teenagers’ stolen white Subaru stopped behind a BMW on Bendigo St in Richmond before one of the pair exited the vehicle and threatened the driver with a weapon.

Wild dashcam footage captured one of the boys, allegedly armed with an axe, jumping from the Subaru and running aggressively toward the BMW before it took off about 1.30pm Friday.

“I’m being chased, I’m literally being chased,” the driver of the BMW can be heard saying.

“Some c---t got out of the car and he’s literally chasing me… I’m going to call the cops.”

The driver of the BMW was not injured and continued driving toward the busy intersection at Burnley station on Swan St.

Moments later, one of the pair armed with the weapon allegedly approached a man in a black Mercedes outside the Rising Sun Hotel and failed to pull the driver from the car.

Jordan Lewis at the scene of the crash. Picture: Jacqui Felgate

The teenagers’ stolen Subaru continued on Church St where it smashed into a Holden Barina, flipping and crashing into the footy legend’s parked car.

Lewis told the Herald Sun he had just finished lunch nearby when he saw his car had been severely damaged.

“I was out for lunch and I came back and saw a car flipped up on the side of the road next to my car, which has obviously damaged my car,” he said.

“That’s about it, I was sort of lucky that I wasn’t there.

“The axle looked like it had been snapped, the front axle … how your day takes a turn.”

The driver of the Barina, Isabella Pristel, was left shaken by the ordeal.

“I just never expected this to happen to me, especially when I was just doing the right thing,” she told Nine.

The two teenagers, a Traralgon boy, 15, and a Ringwood man, 18, fled their flipped car and were detained by members of the public in the KFC drive-thru nearby.

Damian took part in the citizen’s arrest with his brother.

The white Subaru remained on its side early on Friday afternoon. Picture: X/Hipstergeddon

The scene on Church St in Richmond. Picture: reddit/SweetDecent2163

“My brother and I were here on Church St. We have a tile store here and were just having a chat out the front and we heard a loud bang out on the street,” he told 3AW’s Jacqui Felgate.

“We walked out and saw the white SUV flipped on its side. From there we thought it was a pretty bad accident and we saw two gentlemen jump out of the driver’s side and start running down Church St.

“My brother and I looked at each other and we knew exactly what was going on … and he said ‘let’s get them’.

“We made it all the way to KFC on Swan St and we managed to corner them in the drive-through area.”

Damian said they chased the pair for more than a kilometre, and he was recruiting others to join the pursuit as well.

“Because we are a local business as we were running I was seeing people I knew and I was calling ‘give us a hand’ and they jumped in, as well,” he added.

“We knew the more of us there was the safer it was going to be to make the arrest.

“We just got them to sit down and the cops came pretty quickly.”

The two teenagers have both been charged with three counts of attempted carjacking, one count of theft of a motor vehicle, handling stolen goods, going equipped to steal, four counts of possessing a controlled weapon without excuse and various driving offences.

An 18-year-old man was remanded in custody to appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Saturday.

A boy, 15, was remanded in custody to appear at a children’s court.

Carlton coach Michael Voss famously performed a heroic citizen’s arrest after a group of teenagers crashed a car in Hawthorn last year.

Voss was grabbing coffee when he saw the teenagers allegedly attempting to flee the scene before chasing them down.

Voss managed to hold one of the teenagers down until police arrived.

The triple-premiership Lion was later hailed a “true blue hero” before the boy detained was granted bail.

Originally published as Teens charged over terrifying crash involving Hawthorn champion Jordan Lewis’ car