Simply after midnight as we speak, police had been known as to Toongabbie Highway in Girraween over reviews a person allegedly broke right into a parked truck.
Officers arrived on the scene however after approaching the driving force, he allegedly reversed into one other parked truck and took off.
A pursuit started via suburban streets, together with Normac Highway when the person allegedly smashed right into a parked Toyota Camry.
The truck continued via Toongabbie, the place police attemptted to deploy highway spikes on Blacktown Highway.
However the man allegedly diverted via a roundabout and continued on with six police automobiles in pursuit.
The chase moved to the Nice Western Freeway in direction of Prospect, the place extra highway spikes are laid and efficiently decelerate the truck.
The truck then veered throughout the median strip and crashed into a number of police autos.
NSW Police chief inspector Sean Gabin mentioned a taser was then deployed.
“The male was capable of be arrested on the scene within the cabin of the automobile,” he mentioned.
Regardless of it being a slow-speed chase, police mentioned it was nonetheless extremely harmful.
In complete, seven autos had been broken, together with 5 police automobiles.
An inspector was assessed by paramedics when the airbags in his automotive had been deployed.
The 45-year-old driver was charged with ten offences, together with police pursuit – not cease – drive dangerously, steal motorized vehicle and unlicensed driving.
He was refused bail to seem earlier than Parramatta Bail Court docket tomorrow.
Bollards exterior Girraween Excessive College had been additionally flattened.
“He was going in the midst of the highway, simply knocking all the things down,” witness Elizabeth advised 9News.
“It felt like explosions.”
“It was chaos,” one other witness, Tayger, mentioned.
