{"id":340605,"date":"2025-12-11T01:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T01:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/340605\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T01:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T01:04:07","slug":"critical-incident-declared-as-stolen-ute-crashes-in-liverpool-after-police-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/340605\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical incident declared as stolen ute crashes in Liverpool after police pursuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">One of the state&#8217;s most senior officers has refused to answer why New South Wales has seen a surge in police pursuits in response to a woman being critically injured after a police chase on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 21-year-old woman is fighting for her life and two others are in a serious condition after a stolen ute driven by a teenage boy crashed into several cars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police said officers were patrolling the area when the ute drove at speed through a red light on Elizabeth Drive, Liverpool about 11pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">In a statement, NSW Police said the pursuit was terminated due to safety concerns, but officers continued to monitor the ute.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Liverpool scene police and ambos\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au\/3656686e69c561ac9107745a1e7a2c8b?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&amp;cropH=1080&amp;cropW=1620&amp;xPos=150&amp;yPos=0&amp;width=862&amp;height=575\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The driver of the stolen ute, a 17-year-old boy, will be taken into police custody after he is released from hospital. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The pursuit resumed a short time later, police said, before the ute drove through another red light and hit a BMW and a Toyota Yaris on the intersection of the Hume Highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The critically injured woman was a passenger in the BMW.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 17-year-old driver of the stolen ute will be taken to Liverpool Police Station once he is released from Fairfield Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Assistant Commissioner Brett McFadden was asked why police pursuits had tripled across the state since 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">In November,<a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-11-20\/nsw-police-high-speed-pursuit-deaths-call-for-end\/106029986\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> the ABC revealed that in the 2023-2024 financial year, NSW Police had initiated over 30 times more pursuits<\/a> than their neighbouring state law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is an increased danger if we don&#8217;t know that pursuits are undertaken by officers in the field and if there is no opportunity to review and scrutinise and evaluate their roadcraft decision-making, there is a greater risk,&#8221;  Assistant Commissioner McFadden said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;So I think over the last 11 years, our steps to make sure there is a lot of transparency and accountability in relation to that roadcraft and decision-making with pursuits has really put us in a stronger position to understand the challenges our officers are facing in the field.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">NSW Police declared a critical incident and officers from Burwood Police Area Command will investigate the circumstances surrounding the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Professional Standards Command will review the investigation with oversight by police watchdog the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the state&#8217;s most senior officers has refused to answer why New South Wales has seen a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,1613,44,4277,114478],"class_list":["post-340605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-liverpool","tag-news","tag-nsw-police","tag-police-pursuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}