{"id":921157,"date":"2026-10-08T23:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T23:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/921157\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T23:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T23:10:14","slug":"pedestrian-police-car-struck-after-sydney-cbd-carjacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/921157\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian, police car struck after Sydney CBD carjacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A pedestrian has been struck by a stolen car in Sydney&#8217;s CBD after it crashed into two cars, including head-on into a marked police vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police were told a man approached a woman in her 20s in her Mazda sedan on the corner of King and Pitt streets and then stole the car about 9pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man shirtless on the floor next to a police vehicle\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/875dc9484c69e23130bfc676d6ba0d74.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\">The man, 36, was arrested by officers after crashing into a police vehicle. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The car collided with another car, a stationary police vehicle and hit a woman in her 50s on the corner of George Street and Market Street before the man was apprehended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The woman sustained a cut to her head and was taken to hospital in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Smashed up silver car outside the QVB\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/270b991113f5bb671172e940f38a692e.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\">A man has been arrested after stealing a Mazda and colliding with two cars and a pedestrian. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An SUV collided with a police vehicle\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/d11a8ff146c854b6d768909bf62cba71.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\">The man allegedly crashed into a police vehicle. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Officers arrested the driver, a 36-year-old man, at the scene and took him to St Vincent&#8217;s Hospital for mandatory drug and alcohol testing under police guard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man is expected to be charged today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian has been struck by a stolen car in Sydney&#8217;s CBD after it crashed into two cars,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,42840,58042,48,44,57808,4277,78301],"class_list":["post-921157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-car-crash","tag-carjacking","tag-crime","tag-news","tag-nsw-ambulance","tag-nsw-police","tag-sydney-cbd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921157","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=921157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}