{"id":889595,"date":"2026-09-12T17:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T17:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/889595\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T17:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T17:50:13","slug":"wild-pursuit-and-carjacking-across-sydneys-west-leaves-two-children-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/889595\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild pursuit and carjacking across Sydney’s west leaves two children injured"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have been scenes of mayhem across Sydney’s west, with a carjacking, collision and stabbing after a motorist drove into oncoming traffic on a busy motorway with two children on board.<\/p>\n

Police were called to carry out a welfare check on a 36-year-old driver in Belmore, but began a pursuit after he refused to pull over.<\/p>\n

“When the driver allegedly failed to stop as directed, a police pursuit was initiated,” NSW Police said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“The pursuit continued into Auburn before it was terminated due to the manner of the man’s driving.”<\/p>\n

Police said the man then drove on the wrong side of the M4 Motorway before hitting an oncoming vehicle.<\/p>\n

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Police say the pursuit was stopped at Auburn due to the “manner of the man’s driving”. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

He then got out of the car with the two children and allegedly tried to steal a car.<\/p>\n

A 25-year-old man intervened and during a scuffle suffered a stab wound to his hand.<\/p>\n

The offender, police allege, then stole the vehicle of a woman who had stopped to help before bundling the two children into her car and speeding off westbound along the M4 Motorway.<\/p>\n

He stopped on the Cumberland Highway at Wentworthville and was arrested by an off-duty police officer with help from bystanders.<\/p>\n

He was taken to hospital under police guard.<\/p>\n

The children suffered minor injuries and were taken to Westmead Children’s Hospital as a precaution.<\/p>\n

Police are still waiting to interview the man as they piece together what has happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There have been scenes of mayhem across Sydney’s west, with a carjacking, collision and stabbing after a motorist…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,58042,44,4277,179841,171971],"class_list":["post-889595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-carjacking","tag-news","tag-nsw-police","tag-police-chase","tag-welfare-check"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889595","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=889595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}