POLICE CHASE IN SYDNEY
PATROL CARS SPEED THROUGH TRAFFIC
(Rec. 9 p.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 26. A policeman leaning from a patrol car fired six shots at a speeding truck while pursuing it at 80 miles an hour through heavy traffic near Sydney University on Christmas Eve. The police had chased the truck at high speeds for 15 miles from the suburb of Granville, along the Parramatta road, towards the city. The chase began when a patrolling police car noticed a truck which had earlier been reported stolen. When forced to the kerb, the truck turned down a side street and doubled back towards the city. The patrol car radioed for assistance and raced after the truck.
Another police car and a motorcycle joined in the chase. In the Parramatta road, near the city, the drivers of six cars drove their vehicles on to the footoath to avoid the truck, while hundreds of pedestrians scrambled out of the wav. One police bullet nicked the .ear of a tram conductor.
The police cars closed on the truck at full speed One of them scraped its side as the stolen vehicle swerved around a tramway signal box and crashed into a ditch. i
The police arrested two young men, of whom one is suffering from concussion. 1
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25996, 27 December 1949, Page 5
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