Police presser on stolen vehicle accident on Adelaide Avenue 17/4/24

Transcript

00:00 Shortly before 5am this morning, Police and Emergency Services were called to a

00:04 motor vehicle collision on Adelaide Avenue near State Circle and then on

00:09 attendance a white Toyota Camry was located upturned in the middle of the

00:14 road. Quite clearly had been involved in a very significant motor vehicle accident.

00:19 A young male person was located on the road a very short distance away from the

00:25 vehicle and was very badly injured and unresponsive. That young male was taken

00:31 to Canberra Hospital and is currently in a critical condition. Subsequent inquiries

00:38 from ACT Police reveal that that young male was on bail, subject to current bail

00:44 conditions, was in fact in breach of those bail conditions and those bail

00:47 conditions related to similar offending. Police are unsure of any other

00:52 involvement of any other vehicles or any other persons and that obviously forms

00:55 part of the inquiries that our major collision unit are undertaking now.

00:59 So I believe the male was 15 years of age. The Camry was a reported stolen motor vehicle.

01:05 It had been reported stolen I think on or around the 14th of April but

01:11 certainly within the last few days and that vehicle had been involved in a

01:15 number of failed stops with police since it had been reported stolen. I can't say

01:21 whether that male that was located today was involved in those. So we have seen in

01:28 other cases where people come in and out of stolen motor vehicles.

01:34 Generally groups are involved. They may swap drivers and occupants but I can't

01:39 say for sure whether that male was involved in any of those prior failed stops

01:43 but I can say with 100% certainty that that vehicle was involved in failed stops

01:49 with police on more than one occasion in the last two to three days. In terms of

01:53 when we say a failed stop, a failed stop for us is where a car is requested by

01:59 police to pull over and fails to do so. Anything subsequent, anything sorry after

02:04 that is if the police continue to engage is defined by us as a pursuit. However

02:10 this vehicle I know it's certainly on one occasion we did not pursue the

02:15 vehicle or the pursuit was called off by the police that were following the

02:19 vehicle due to the speeds reached by the vehicle and the environment it was

02:22 driving in being suburban roads.

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