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Two students hit by stolen car in Canberra
The Canberra Times
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3/28/2025
Two children have been taken to hospital in a serious condition after being hit by a speeding car opposite St Edmund's College on Canberra Avenue.
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About 7.40am this morning, New South Wales Police Force responded to reports of a stolen
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motor vehicle in Sutton, New South Wales.
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They attended a childcare centre where it's alleged a Holden station wagon was stolen
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from that location with an eight-year-old girl in the rear of the vehicle.
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Fortunately, that girl was let out of the vehicle approximately 100 metres down the
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road unharmed.
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That was last seen heading towards the ACT, so ACT Policing were alerted to reports of
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that vehicle.
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For the next hour, ACT Policing along with our New South Wales Police Force colleagues
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attempted to locate that vehicle and shortly after 9am this morning, the vehicle was sighted
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entering the ACT on Canberra Avenue, Harman.
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A short time later, Police and Emergency Services responded to reports of a collision on Canberra
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Avenue, Griffith, outside the St Edmunds College, where unfortunately a 15-year-old
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and a 14-year-old boy were struck by that Holden Commodore station wagon.
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The vehicle then struck another vehicle before coming to rest at the corner of Canberra Avenue
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and Ferno Street in Marnika, behind me here.
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The 31-year-old male attempted to flee the scene.
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He was apprehended a short distance away by tradespeople working in the area and ACT Policing
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members attended a short time after that and took the male into custody.
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The 15-year-old and 14-year-old boy, both students at St Edmunds College, were both
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taken to hospital in serious condition.
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The 31-year-old male driver and sole occupant of that vehicle was also taken to hospital
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where he remains under police guard.
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At this time, our thoughts go out to the boys and the families of those boys and also
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the whole St Edmunds community at this time.
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We also appeal at this time to anybody that saw the vehicle, the green Holden Commodore
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station wagon with Victorian number plates, anyone that saw that vehicle driving in ACT
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or New South Wales from 7 Porter this morning, if they could contact Crimestoppers on 1-800-333-000.
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I think I've got that right.
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What sort of injuries do the boys have?
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Serious injuries at this time.
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My update at this time is one is currently in theatre being operated on and the other
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one is in serious condition.
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And what do we know about that 31-year-old man who was taken into custody?
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We're currently conducting enquiries in relation to him.
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He's not currently a resident of the ACT.
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He was most recently a resident of Victoria.
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He has been a resident of the ACT in the past.
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So we're currently conducting enquiries with our state colleagues to get a recent update
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on the chronology of his whereabouts.
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Is he known to police?
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He is known to police, yes.
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At the time the boys were hit, were the police engaged in a chase?
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No, there was no chase involved.
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Police attempted to deploy stop sticks back in Harman and there was no pursuit ensuing.
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Police believed he may have gone into Fishwick and went through Fishwick and at that time
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we responded to reports of a collision in Griffith.
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Do you know yet if he was speeding or what speed he might have been going?
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There are reports of erratic driving behaviour before and after the time of the incident.
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And this is just such a shocking thing for so many people.
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What can you say to people who are sort of reeling from it today?
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This is a tragedy.
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Obviously we've got our major collision team, we've got our police detectives out conducting
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a thorough investigation.
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As I said, our thoughts and hearts go out to the boys, the family of those boys and
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also the wider St Edmunds community.
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And what about those heroic three people, what do you have to say to them?
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Oh look, it's amazing isn't it, that people can respond like that, to put themselves in
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harm's way.
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Obviously they could see by the state of the car that the car had been involved in a serious
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collision and obviously as the male attempted to flee, they apprehended him and then police
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arrived a short time after.
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Sorry, just to check details, was the little girl in the car, was she known to this 31
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year old?
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No, no.
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So it was just a random car?
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It was an opportunity, we believe at this time it was an opportunistic theft of that
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vehicle.
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And she escaped unharmed physically?
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She was let out of the vehicle unharmed, yes.
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But I mean it's just such a scary thing for a young child to go through, like how is she
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doing?
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Oh certainly, our New South Wales Police Force colleagues are dealing with that part of the
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incident.
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There were reports in New South Wales that this car had hit a number of other cars before
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it entered the ACT, what can you say about that?
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We're conducting inquiries at the moment, we do know there was a serious collision with
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another car closest to St Edmunds College up there that's caused a lot of the injuries,
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a lot of the, sorry, a lot of the damage to the car that you'll see behind me there.
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Our investigation is solely and wholly on events that have happened in the ACT.
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And that collision was before the kids were around?
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That's part of the investigation at the moment, I believe it happened after colliding with
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the two children.
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And have police been in contact with the boys' families?
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Police are currently up at the hospital with the families of the boys, yes.
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And that man who was under police guard in hospital, was he taken to Maggots and Tissot
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or was he also injured?
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He suffered injuries as a result of the collisions, obviously with the boys and other vehicles
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involved.
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What kind of injuries were they?
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I don't have an update on his condition at this time.
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Do you have any idea what's prompted this whole chain of events?
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No, that'll be part of our, form part of our ongoing inquiries in relation to this.
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