Teen arrested after alleged stolen car hit with road spikes
Police have set road spikes in a dramatic end to crime spree by a known recidivist offender alleged to have stolen one car before carjacking a taxi while trying to avoid arrest. See the crash video.
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Police have set road spikes across a Cairns street in a dramatic end to crime spree by a known recidivist offender alleged to have stolen one car before carjacking a taxi while trying to avoid arrest.
The hunt for the boy understood to be aged about 15 began after a Mitsubishi Outlander was stolen from an Edmonton address on Monday.
Police tracked the stolen car before setting up a tyre deflation device on Lynx Drive which successfully stopped the vehicle.
Running from the stricken car, police allege the boy threatened a taxi driver and pulled him out of the car before making his getaway in the cabbie’s Toyota Camry.
The taxi driver suffering from a minor back injury was taken to Cairns Hospital for treatment.
Predicting the route of the stolen taxi through Cairns west suburbs police set up road blocks to divert traffic down Mayers St.
In a video obtained by the Cairns Post an officer can be seen hiding behind a boat in wait for the stolen taxi.
The officer releases road spikes across both lanes of Mayers St.
The wanted teen can be seen swerving to avoid the spikes before crashing into a parked Hyundai i20.
The sound of screeching tyres and crumpling metal can be heard in the video and off camera the Hyundai is propelled forward before scraping the side of a four-wheel-drive parked on the nature strip.
Again, the driver tried to run from the badly damaged taxi that had come to a stop in the middle of the road with steam shooting out of the radiator.
“Get on the ground now, get out of the car, on the f**king ground c**t,” the arresting officer in the video can be heard yetting.
The owner of the vehicle declined to comment on Tuesday afternoon but indicated frustration that her little car had been totalled in the crash.
So far this month 38 cars have been stolen throughout Cairns to make a running total since January 1 of 347 vehicles.
The boy sustained a minor injury to his head and was taken to Cairns Hospital for treatment.
Police investigations into the spate of property offences is ongoing.
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