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A woman is in hospital with serious injuries after a driver involved in a police pursuit crashed into her in Melbourne's north-east.
The collision took place on Bell Street, Preston, at 11.20pm on Monday night when the male driver failed to stop at a red light and slammed into the car with one female passenger.
A woman is seriously injured after a driver trying to elude police crashes into her car on Bell Street in Preston, with the offender in hospital under police guard. Courtesy ABC News.
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A woman is seriously injured after a driver trying to elude police crashes into her car on Bell Street in Preston, with the offender in hospital under police guard. Courtesy ABC News.
Police had been pursuing the vehicle with alleged false number plates along Bell Street after the driver began driving erratically.Â
The male driver, 31, is in hospital under police guard with minor injuries while the female driver of the second car was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
The injured woman's car after it was T-boned on Bell Street, Preston, on Monday night. Photo: Twitter/@ChristineAhern
The female passenger of the second car, believed to be in her teens, is uninjured.
Victoria Police Detective Inspection Stuart McGregor told Nine News the white ute began driving down the wrong side of the road just before the crash before ignoring a red light on Lahinch Street and slamming into the driver's side of the second car.
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"Of course the innocent victim, a 41-year-old woman, was just driving through a green light and a serious collision has occurred on the driver's side of the car. She's now in hospital with very serious injuries."
Inspector McGregor said there was enough forensic evidence at the scene for the male driver to be charged, and said he was glad the female driver survived the accident.
The scene of a crashed on Bell St in Preston after a police chase on 7 February 2017. Photo: Eddie Jim
"When you think about it, it could be any one. Any one of us could have been driving through that intersection at the time when this pursuit happened," he said.
"This didn't have to happen. All he had to do was stop and now he's looking at a really long jail term."
The crash scene after a police pursuit on Bell Street, Preston, on Monday night. Photo: Courtesy ABC
Ambulance Victoria said the female driver was in Royal Melbourne Hospital in a stable condition and is being treated for rib, back and hip pain.
Both damaged cars ended up on the nature strip outside Harvey Norman and Officeworks on Bell Street, with Major Collision Investigation Group detectives still at the scene at 6am.
Bell Street is open to traffic as normal.
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