A 35-year-old man is lucky to be alive after narrowly avoiding a truck and ramming a police car in Melbourne's west overnight.
Police first spotted the driver of a silver Ford Ranger allegedly swerving on the Princes Freeway near Laverton about 1 am.
Officers attempted to intercept the car, but the driver continued, travelling along Palmers and Sayers roads in Tarneit.
READ MORE: Western Australia child killer Dante Arthurs up for parole in weeks
Police say the car narrowly missed colliding with a truck on Forsyth Road.
The Ford continued until it came to a stop on Dylan Street in Tarneit, before it reversed into a police car.
A 35-year-old man was arrested at the scene and will be interviewed by police.
The Ford was impounded at a cost of $1225.
DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. Available on the Apple App Store and Google Play.
Related Posts
Man charged over alleged antisemitic attacks in Sydney's eastA man has been charged today over his alleged role in antisemitic attacks in Sydney's eastern suburbs last year.
The 36- Jury in A$AP Rocky's felony assault trial to start deliberations next weekJurors in the felony assault trial of A$AP Rocky got the case late Friday (local time) after a prosecutor told them in
- Explosions rip through several buses in IsraelA series of explosions on three parked buses rattled central Israel this morning in what authorities suspected was a mi
- 'Underwater bushfire': WA's Ningaloo corals hit by widespread bleachingDivers have captured concerning footage of what conservationists believe to be widespread coral bleaching at Western Au
- Police officer killed, five wounded in hospital shootingA police officer was killed and five other people were wounded when a man took medical staff hostage and opened fire at
- Woman withdraws civil lawsuit against Jay-Z, Sean 'Diddy' CombsA US woman who said she was raped by rappers Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs when she was 13 withdrew her civil lawsuit ag
