By Victoria Stone-Meadows
A woman from Hampton Park has been arrested after her car engine blew up during a police pursuit on Friday 2 June.
The driver was detected travelling at 125km/h in an 80km/h zone on the Frankston-Cranbourne Road in Langwarrin, in a car with no number plates shortly after midnight.
The 31-year-old women attempted to speed away in the silver Mitsubishi hatchback towards Peninsula Link, leading police on a chase reaching speeds of 180 km/h.
The car however was not up to the task of an ongoing police chase and the engine gave up, leaving the broken car on the side of the Frankston-Flinders Road in Baxter.
The woman and three passengers in the car were arrested at the scene and a search of the car found an axe under the seat and a knife in the woman’s handbag.
The woman was charged with 17 offences including speeding, dangerous driving while pursued by police, conduct endangering life/serious injury, disqualified driving, using an unregistered motor vehicle, possessing a controlled weapon and refusing to undergo a preliminary oral fluid test.
She was bailed with strict conditions to appear at Frankston Magistrates’ Court on 21 August and the immobile Mitsubishi was also impounded for 30 days at a cost of $960.
