Police are still investigating the sequence of events that led to the fatal crash on Melbourne's Eastern Freeway, but Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton has offered a first timeline of events.
While many details about Wednesday evening's crash on Melbourne's Eastern Freeway are yet to be confirmed, Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton has run through the sequence of events which led to the death of four officers.Investigations continue into why a truck slammed into a parked police car on Wednesday evening
The driver of the Porsche had drugs in his system and fled the scene, but has been in contact with police sinceand some detail would not be known until after interviews had been held."I believe it was about 4:50pm last night, on the inbound stopping lane of the Eastern Freeway, on the city side of the intersection, two members of the Road Policing Drug and Alcohol Section intercepted a 911 Porsche bearing the registration LLC001," he said.
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