Shocking video shows a high-speed chase and a man’s attempted carjacking before he jumps from a bridge to try and avoid arrest.
Helicopter video shows the man’s allegedly stolen vehicle swerving on the road before driving onto the footpath.
The car travels on the wrong side of the road through an intersection at high speed, dodging other vehicles on the road.The man leaves the car and runs to another car, where police say he tries to carjack the vehicle at knifepoint. As the occupants of the car, a man and his daughter, begin to get out of the vehicle, police arrive and intervene, and the man tries to flee on foot.
He then dramatically flings himself over the two barriers on the bridge, throwing himself into the water to try and avoid arrest.Police allege the Maudsland man, 29, was first sighted in Benowa about 11am yesterday in a stolen Hyundai Santa Fe with fake number plates from NSW after a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Here's our catch of the day in the Nerang River yesterday following a string of dangerous driving offences on the Gold Coast.
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