In brief
DISASTER was narrowly averted on Sunday morning, when an elderly driver wrote off two cars at Healesville’s BP service station.
Yarra Glen police Sergeant Richard Coulson said that a 32-year-old Fitzroy North man was filling his car with fuel at the service station about 11am on Sunday, 4 December.
At that time, a 70-year-old Healesville driver entering the station put his foot on the accelerator instead of the brake pedal and hit the car, causing it to spin.
Sgt Coulson said it was likely that both cars would be written off in the crash, and that the 70-year-old narrowly avoided hitting a petrol bowser, instead hitting bollards surrounding it.
He said the crash was a case of the driver hitting the wrong pedal, then putting their foot down “in that panic”.
“It’s one of those situations that sometimes, they’ve accidentally hit the accelerator, they keep pushing harder,” he said.
The 70-year-old driver will undergo a licence review as a result of the crash.
$3000 cash stolen
DETECTIVES are looking for thieves who made off with $3000 in cash after breaking into a Yarra Glen retail premises last week.
Overnight between Wednesday, 30 November and Thursday, 1 December, unknown persons smashed the front door of a retail premises on Bell Street, Yarra Glen.
Yarra Ranges Crime Investigation Unit (CIU) Detective Sergeant Adrian Berardi said the thieves made off with $3000.
He urged anyone who might have seen suspicious behaviour, or vehicles parked nearby, to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or to submit a confidential crime report to www.crimestoppersvic.com.au.
