Toowoomba stolen vehicle: Teen arrested after police pursuit on Toowoomba Bypass of stolen truck

A teenager is in custody and a police officer has been injured following the dramatic pursuit of a stolen truck, in an incident that was all caught on camera.

A police officer was injured while trying to apprehend a teenager in a stolen truck in Toowoomba on Friday morning.

QPS Darling Downs district inspector Danny Shaw has revealed further details about the pursuit and arrest of the 17-year-old, who is alleged to have stolen an eight-tonne Fuso Canter truck from Toowoomba about 6am.

Insp Shaw said officers discovered the vehicle in Oakey before it was followed across the region.

QPS Darling Downs District Inspector Danny Shaw.

“We tried to deploy spikes to actually stop the vehicle but they were ineffective,” he said.

“We then pursued the vehicle further and subsequently it did collide with a civilian vehicle.

“Police have then hopped out and run up to the driver’s side door and tried to gain entry and broken the window.

“One of the officers has injured his hand in trying to do this.”

Insp Shaw said the officer suffered minor cuts to his hand as a result of the incident.

A dramatic police chase of a stolen flatbed truck was captured on the Toowoomba Bypass on Friday, June 30.

“The Toowoomba community can be confident police are doing all they can to apprehend offenders and this is evidenced by the great work in apprehending the person involved,” he said.

“Our officers put themselves at significant risk by trying to stop this individuals driving stolen vehicles.”

The teen has been charged with 24 offences including four counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle while adversely affected by an intoxicating substance, two of evading police, unlawful use of a motor vehicle, serious assault of police while adversely affected, obstructing police, wilful damage, possessing a knife in public, and driving while under the influence.

He has been remanded in custody and is expected to appear before the Toowoomba Childrens Court on Saturday morning.

Earlier: Teen arrested after bypass pursuit

Police have charged a 17-year-old boy with 24 offences arising from incidents involved in a dramatic police chase of a driver in a stolen truck on the Toowoomba Bypass early Friday morning.

The teenager, who as an alleged juvenile offender cannot be publicly identified under Queensland law, was taken into custody Friday morning after police eventually intercepted the truck in North Toowoomba.

The child has been charged with 24 offences including four counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle while adversely affected by an intoxicating substance, two of evading police, unlawful use of a motor vehicle, serious assault of police while adversely affected, obstructing police, wilful damage, possessing a knife in public, and driving while under the influence.

He has been remanded in custody and is expected to appear before the Toowoomba Childrens Court on Saturday morning.

The dramatic police chase on the Toowoomba Bypass ended with the teen in custody, after footage of the incident shows officers attempting to stop a small truck driving erratically across the city.

Toowoomba police arrested a man on Friday morning following the pursuit of the white Mitsubishi Fuso single-cab truck, which was reported stolen from a Laurel Street business about 6am.

Video on social media shows four police cars in pursuit of the vehicle along the bypass at Cranley, before it turned off at the Mort Street exit.

A dramatic police chase of a stolen flatbed truck was captured on the Toowoomba Bypass on Friday, June 30.

Toowoomba resident Jonah Redfern, who caught the footage, was driving to Tafe along the bypass at 7.42am when he saw multiple police cars approaching in his rearview mirror.

“I thought it was a heavy load or something and then this little truck starts overtaking me slowly and all these cop cars follow,” he said.

Mr Redfern said with four police vehicles in pursuit of the truck along the highway the stolen car reached a speed of about 120km/h.

The single-cab flat bed truck then took the Mort Street exit off the bypass before it collided with another vehicle which brought the police pursuit to a temporary stop.

“He got off onto the Mort St exit and that’s when he hit the guy and the cops boxed him in,” he said.

“The police smashed his windows and he just drove away and the cops ran back to their cars to follow.”

Mr Redfern said two of the four police vehicles continued the pursuit while other officers checked on the man inside the vehicle that had been hit.

Police said the stolen vehicle came to a stop on Harth Street, where the offender continued on foot.

Officers arrested the man a short time later on Priest Street and he remains in custody.