Vic: Hoon driver flees, slips police search

AAP General News (Australia)
12-21-2009
Vic: Hoon driver flees, slips police search

MELBOURNE, Dec 21 AAP - A man is on the run after leading police on a 40-kilometre
chase northeast of Melbourne overnight.

The man was clocked at more than 140 km/h in his Ford Falcon, then led Yarra Ranges
traffic management unit police on a chase between Glenburn and Dixons Creek, police said.

Pursuing police called off the chase when speeds reached 235 km/h.

Another police unit intercepted the car a short time later and gave chase. The driver
abandoned the car in Breakneck Road, Yarra Glen, and fled into the bush.

A police helicopter crew and dog squad unit failed to locate the driver.

The car has been impounded for 48 hours under Victoria's hoon legislation.

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