DEATH TRAP
STOLEN CARS RUN DAD OFF ROAD CAUSING SERIOUS INJURIES
If I was in a smaller car … or 10m closer … I’d probably be dead. They’re going to kill somebody. ROBERT CLEM
IN a split second, a Townsville father was forced to decide how he could save his life as two stolen cars screamed towards him.
Robert Clem’s decision has left him with a fractured collar bone, fractured leg, major concussion and swelling behind his eye, but luckily his life, after he was run off the road by criminals in stolen cars. Mr Clem, 43, was driving along the Bruce Highway in his 4WD to his Nome home about 10pm on Thursday when he saw two cars speeding towards him with lights flashing.
He tried to avoid them but his car careered down an embankment and crashed into trees and his head slammed into the steering wheel.
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