By Brendan Rees
A Lynbrook resident has described the moment a driver “hurtled” towards her following a dramatic police chase in Cranbourne on Monday 1 April.
Robin Dzedins said she was turning left into Camms Road from South Gippsland Highway about 2.30pm when she saw a car “swerving like a maniac.”
“I could only see it head on hurtling straight at me. Luckily I was turning left, had I been going straight ahead I would’ve been hit,” Ms Dzedins said.
“I thought he was going to hit the side of my car.
“I looked behind and saw bits of car he had hit flying in the air and I was thinking ‘God, I haven’t been killed and hope no one behind me is killed.’”
It came as police were led on a two-hour wild pursuit which began about 12.30pm after a four-wheel-drive was allegedly stolen from Cranbourne.
The vehicle was later set alight, police say, before the speedsters fled in a station wagon and later hijacked a ute in Hampton Park.
The ute crashed where police say the driver was seen getting out carrying a rifle, which was used to carjack a Ford ute in Carrum Downs.
Witnesses say they saw the vehicle driving on the wrong side of the South Gippsland Highway in Cranbourne.
Ms Dzedins said: “It was very frightening, I was very lucky.”
“I could see bits of car flying up into the air, like I think mirrors or I don’t know; door handles, something like that,” she added.
“There must have been so people just affected literally by the accident.”
Cardinia Highway Patrol arrested two men and a woman who attempted to flee on foot after their ute crashed into a truck on the South Gippsland Highway.
The driver, a 26-year-old male from Cheltenham, tested positive to methamphetamine and had his licence disqualified. He was charged with aggravated carjacking; eight counts of theft of a motor vehicle, three counts of arson, three burglaries, and three counts of obtain property by deception and eight counts of theft.
A 22-year-old Pakenham man was charged with aggravated carjacking, four counts of theft of a motor vehicle, arson, two counts of burglary, obtain property by deception, two counts of theft.
Both men were remanded to appear at the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday 2 April.
A 21-year-old Dandenong woman was charged with two counts of theft of a motor vehicle.
She was bailed to appear at Frankston Magistrates’ Court on 3 September.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
