Police have charged several people after three separate incidents overnight in Perth’s CBD in which a car was submerged in the Swan River.
Important points:
- Police claim a 20-year-old man drove a car into a group of people in the CBD
- Several police officers were injured in another incident in East Perth East
- Meanwhile, shortly after midnight, a car was driven into the Swan River
A 20-year-old man was charged after allegedly hitting a group of people in his car near St. Georges Terrace.
Police claim that there was a “physical altercation” between the man and two groups of people on Barrack Street around 8:40 pm.
The man is said to have driven his car into one of the groups in the incident.
A short time later he was arrested at the crime scene.
The man is said to have driven into a group of people during an argument with a car.
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Four people suffered minor injuries, one of whom remains in stable condition at the Royal Perth Hospital.
The man, who is from Huntingdale, has been charged with four unlawful act or omission to endanger a person’s life, health or safety.
He was denied bail and was due to appear in Perth Magistrates Court on Sunday.
The police have asked anyone with additional information or visions about the incident to contact them.
Youth charged after meeting
Meanwhile, several police officers were injured after they were allegedly attacked overnight by three teenagers in East Perth.
Police were called to serviced apartments on Adelaide Terrace at around 1:30 a.m. after reports of a group of unapproved people in two of the rooms.
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It is alleged that two 17-year-old girls and a boy, also 17, behaved in a messy manner and stopped moving when the police asked.
In addition, one of the girls and the boy allegedly assaulted officers before and during two of the arrests, while the second girl allegedly interfered with officers and attacked the police on two occasions.
Three policemen were slightly injured.
Two of the teenagers, a girl from Girrawheen and a boy from Banksia Grove, were charged with assaulting and misconducting an officer in a public place.
The second Landsdale girl was charged with obstructing officers and assaulting an officer on two counts.
All three teenagers are due to appear in court on August 10th.
Car salvaged from Swan River
In a third incident, police are investigating the circumstances under which a car was driven into the Swan River shortly after midnight.
Police received reports of a vehicle submerged in the river at around 12:15 p.m. before being removed by water police this morning.
The car was removed by the water police early Sunday morning. (
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Witness Paul Madden said he was enjoying his usual evening stroll when he saw the car pull into the river.
“There was that blue car … I just noticed, and the next thing they do is crank the engine and hit the curb and throw themselves into the river,” he said.
According to the police, the vehicle is said to have been occupied by two people who left the scene.
“The guy jumped out the driver’s side window and jumped on the roof and then jumped in the water and jumped up, and then the two guys walked towards the Supreme Court Gardens,” Madden said.
“Ordinarily I would see a possum or a rat, not that.”
