A mother has pulled off a dramatic rescue after a caravan was stolen with her three children inside before crashing.<\/p>\n
Police say the distraught mum climbed on top of the caravan and retrieved her kids \u2013 aged seven, five and two \u2013 by pulling them out through a skylight.<\/p>\n
A 59-year-old man has been charged, accused of stealing the caravan with the kids and mother inside, from a Gold Coast property before driving into a ditch and injuring a dog.<\/p>\n
The man allegedly attached the 1.5-tonne caravan to his station wagon using a single ratchet strap and drove away from the Tallai address about 5.30pm on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The 40-year-old mum, who is known to the man, was able to escape the caravan, but her children remained inside, police said.<\/p>\n
Her pet female Rottweiler was underneath the caravan when it was towed away and suffered head and leg injuries.<\/p>\n
The caravan gained momentum down a hill and overtook the station wagon before both vehicles crashed into a ditch about 80m from the property’s driveway.<\/p>\n
The mother then managed to drag the children out through the skylight, police said.<\/p>\n
The children weren’t injured but the man was taken to hospital as a precaution.<\/p>\n
The Tallai man \ufeffhas been charged with unlawful use of a motor vehicle and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle.<\/p>\n
He will appear in Southport Magistrates Court on November 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother has pulled off a dramatic rescue after a caravan was stolen with her three children inside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-93515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}