Police chase involving allegedly stolen car ends in fiery crash
Two youths have been taken into custody after a police chase from Geelong to Melbourne's eastern suburbs that ended when their stolen car crashed and burst into flames.Paramedics treated two teenagers for minor injuries at the scenePolice said officers had responded to an alleged aggravated burglary in the Geelong suburb of Bell Post Hill about 4:00am, where a car was stolen.
"The BMW was monitored by the Air Wing and other police units towards the city where a short pursuit occurred," a police spokesman said in a statement. The car crashed into a pole and caught fire on Toorak Road, near Auburn Road, in Hawthorn about 5:30am.The charred and blackened BMW was still smoking in the hour after the crash.
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