CHASE ENDS: A car has crashed through a suburban Willagee fence and backyard in an attempt to evade police. Picture: Marie Nirme Source: PerthNow
CHASE ENDS: A car has crashed through a suburban Willagee fence and backyard in an attempt to evade police. Picture: Marie Nirme Source: PerthNow
CHASE ENDS: A car has crashed through a suburban Willagee fence and backyard in an attempt to evade police. Picture: Marie Nirme Source: PerthNow
A CAR chase in Perth's southern suburbs has ended when a stolen car with just two functioning wheels was deliberately driven through two fences.
Police started chasing a stolen Ford Fairlane in East Fremantle about 10.45am today.
Soon after, a resident of Jules Court in Willagee watched on as a silver Ford Fairlane crashed through a fence on his normally quiet cul-de-sac street, through another fence and came to rest on a property on Boon Street.
“This guy tried to get away from police by driving straight through a fence into a neighbour's property. He was trapped in a cul-de-sac,” the resident, Murray, said.
Murray said police told him the car was stolen and the driver was wanted by police on a return-to-court order.
Police media would only confirm a stolen Ford Fairlane was chased from East Fremantle this morning and that one woman had been arrested during the incident.
Murray said by the time the car came crashing through his fence, only a man was inside it, and all he could hear was sirens as police chased the man, pepper-spraying him as he was arrested.
“It was bloody scary at the time,” Murray said.
Murray said it looked like the driver thought that by going through his fence, he would come out on to a side road, but instead he went into another family’s back yard.
“It was just lucky that the neighbours, who have young kids that play outside, weren’t playing outside at the time otherwise he would have cleaned them up,” he said.
Murray said luckily the only damage to his property was a broken fence, which would be covered by insurance.
