Two teenagers miraculously survive police pursuit crash
Two teenagers have miraculously escaped a joyride that evolved into a police pursuit and ended in a dramatic car crash, 7News reports.
The father of one of the boys who cannot be identified due to their young age told 7News of his distress, "I've been crying my eyes out at home. I just thank god he is alive."
"Like I said, I just said to him we'd better go to church tonight to thank the big guy upstairs because how do you walk out of that?", the father told 7News.
According to reports, officers tried to pull the car over on King Street at Newtown in the city's inner west just before 3:30am, police say.
They then chased the car south along the Princes Highway.
The pursuit ended when the car crashed into the Banksia Hotel.
Two boys in the car, aged 13 and 16, were treated by paramedics before being taken to St George Hospital with minor injuries.
The father of one of the boys told 7News that the boys took the car when they discovered the keys left in the ignition.
When the police spotted the duo, the teen panicked, excelerated; then crashed.
