Woman attacked with axe before Ford Mustang stolen, police allege
Police pursued the man by vehicle, by Pol Air, and used road spikes, but the chase only came to a stop an hour later when he collided with a Ford utility and members of the public detained him.
Detailing the event, NSW Police said officers had been called to a home east of Nowra shortly before 1pm on Saturday, after reports of a man armed with an axe and a hammer.
When members of the South Coast Police District arrived at the home on Rayleigh Drive, Worrigee, they allege that the man threw the axe at a police vehicle.
The man retrieved the axe then ran to a home in nearby Illawarra Circuit – where he allegedly assaulted a 66-year-old woman while she was sitting in her Ford Mustang, which police said was a 2017 'one of a kind' model.
Police allege the man hit the woman multiple times with the axe before forcing her out of the car. The woman was then run over by her own car as the man drove it away.
Police pursued the man through the south coast towns of Nowra, Bomaderry, Berry, Gerringong, and Kiama at 180km/h, through some 80km/h speed zones.
Police tried to use road spikes to end the pursuit, but the driver allegedly swerved the vehicle towards a highway patrol officer narrowly missing him and the spikes.
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