Two people have been arrested after an allegedly stolen car was driven towards police after crashing into a school bus in Geelong, prompting police to shoot at the vehicle.<\/p>\n
Vision posted to social media shows the car reversing into the bus before driving in the direction of at least one officer on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Young children can be heard screaming as two shots ring out.<\/p>\n
The ABC understands students from Sacred Heart College and St Joseph’s College were on the bus.<\/p>\n
The Kia Optima, alleged to have been stolen from New South Wales, was spotted by a police helicopter near the intersection of Princes Highway and Roebuck Street in the Geelong suburb of Newtown about 3:40pm.<\/p>\n
Victoria Police confirmed officers shot at the car as the alleged offenders tried to flee.<\/p>\n
“The Kia is alleged to have driven at officers, who have discharged their firearm, before it collided with another vehicle,” a police spokesperson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A man and woman, both aged 37, allegedly tried to flee on foot but were arrested nearby.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The man sustained a gunshot wound to the arm and was taken to hospital under police guard with non-life-threatening injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The woman was also taken to hospital with minor injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A female driver from another vehicle also suffered minor injuries and was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n
Latrobe Terrace was closed in both directions between Ryrie Street and McKillop Street at about 6pm.<\/p>\n
VicTraffic has advised of long southbound delays from Church Street overpass and northbound from Fyans Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been arrested after an allegedly stolen car was driven towards police after crashing into a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,1154,230812,44,1158,17728,67410],"class_list":["post-444739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-crash","tag-latrobe-terrace","tag-news","tag-police","tag-police-investigation","tag-school-bus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444739","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=444739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}