{"id":480731,"date":"2026-02-15T02:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T02:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/480731\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T02:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T02:27:11","slug":"man-charged-after-two-women-die-in-crash-following-police-pursuit-in-sydneys-south-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/480731\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after two women die in crash following police pursuit in Sydney&#8217;s south-west"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A 31-year-old man has faced court on 11 charges on Sunday after two women were killed in a crash following a police pursuit in Sydney&#8217;s south-west.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police were called to a service station on King Georges Road in South Hurstville, about 10:20am on Saturday, following reports a red sedan belonging to a 25-year-old man was stolen from the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Officers then spotted the alleged stolen vehicle travelling on King Georges Road near Beverly Hills, initiating a pursuit after the driver, Luke Francis, failed to stop.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NSW Police at the scene of a two-car crash at camden\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771122431_323_e947726bf1137c84392c66c26ed18a70.jpeg\" 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\">NSW Police say the red sedan was stolen from a petrol station at South Hurstville. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The pursuit, which also included PolAir, continued along the M5 Motorway before being called off in Bankstown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A short time later at 11:10am, the sedan crashed into an Alfa Romeo sedan on the Old Hume Highway in Camden South.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The two occupants of the Alfa Romeo \u2014 women aged 60 and 84 \u2014 \u00a0died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Mr Francis allegedly fled the scene and was arrested on Nepean Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He was taken to Campbelltown Hospital for mandatory testing before being charged with 11 offences.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The charges include dangerous driving occasioning death, escaping pursuit, driving recklessly at speed or manner that is dangerous, failing to stop to assist a crash causing death, driving unlicensed for classes&#8217; C, R, LR or MR, not stopping at a red light, as well as intent to take motor vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He appeared before the Bail Division Court on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He did not apply for bail and it was formally refused.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police declared a critical incident on Saturday, which was later escalated to a Level 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The investigation will be reviewed by the Professional Standards Command and overseen by the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 31-year-old man has faced court on 11 charges on Sunday after two women were killed in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,244062,2973,1154,185003,10470,244060,44,4277,244061],"class_list":{"0":"post-480731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bail-division","11":"tag-courts","12":"tag-crash","13":"tag-critical-incident","14":"tag-fatal-crash","15":"tag-hurstville","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nsw-police","18":"tag-sydney-south"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480731","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=480731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}