CAR SMASHES INTO HOME

STOLEN VEHICLE HITS BEDROOM WITH TEENAGER INSIDE:

AN OAKEY father is thankful his teenage son was awake and watching TV at 3am when three adults crashed a stolen 4WD through his bedroom window yesterday.

The boy escaped uninjured after he was alerted moments before the crash by nearby lights and sirens.

“We were in bed, and we heard the sirens,” dad Wayne Halliday said.

The family got up to see what the commotion was just before the 4WD rammed their home.

“It was like a disaster zone - there were fence posts scattered everywhere,” he said.

The collision damaged the brick wall and shattered a window.

“I am pretty annoyed, but what can you do. I am just glad my kids are okay,” Mr Halliday said.

The police advised Mr Halliday and his family to stay in their home while they took two offenders into custody and started searching for a third.

It was a dramatic end to the night of mischief.

Toowoomba Detective Acting-Senior Sergeant John Cunningham said the trio was alleged to have stolen the 4WD from an address in Raff St, North Toowoomba in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

It was later observed in a fuel drive-off at a Charlton service station on the Warrego Highway about 1.55am.

Police conducted extensive patrols for the vehicle in Charlton, Kingsthorpe and Oakey before locating it travelling westbound on 4AK Road towards Oakey.

They laid road spikes on 4AK Road and successfully deflated the 4WD’s tyres, but the vehicle failed to stop and a police pursuit commenced.

Police will further allege the stolen 4WD failed to negotiate a bend at the intersection with Hamlyn Road and crashed into Mr Halliday’s house, causing significant damage.

The three occupants of the vehicle, two men and one woman, fled on foot with police apprehending two 18year-olds soon after.

An 18-year-old Chinchilla man was arrested and charged with eight offences including dangerous operation of a motor vehicle and burglary.

He was denied police bail and appeared in the Toowoomba Magistrates Court yesterday.

An 18-year-old Toowoomba woman was charged with five offences. She was granted bail and is due before Toowoomba Magistrates Court on September 6.

The second man remains on the loose.

WANTED: A manhunt is under way to apprehend a man who escaped the dramatic end to a police pursuit. Police allege a trio of offenders stole a 4WD from Raft Street in Toowoomba before crashing it into an Oakey home.