Car chase ends with police drawing guns, arresting pair in Fo Tan
Pair suspected of planning a robbery as number plates found in unregistered car after pursuit
Two policemen drew their guns to stop a car when its driver tried to ram them after a four-kilometre car chase yesterday.
The 33-year-old driver of the two-door Lexus was arrested for dangerous driving, driving with his licence disqualified and without third-party insurance and driving an unlicensed vehicle.
The chase began on the Tsing Sha Highway in Tai Wai at 12.15pm, when a new automatic number plate recognition camera on an unmarked police car scanned the car's number plate and found its licence had expired.
Police officers sounded a siren and ordered the vehicle's driver to pull over, but he ignored their command and sped off, the police said. Four traffic officers gave chase in a police car. The white Lexus led them at high speed into the Fo Tan industrial area.
A senior police officer said the car had been clocked travelling at more than 100km/h in 70km/h speed zones during the pursuit.
"In an effort to evade police in the industrial area, the car kept switching lanes, crossed double white lines and travelled on the wrong side of the road on several streets," he said. "A number of vehicles had to brake heavily to avoid colliding with the car."
The 10-minute chase ended when the Lexus entered a cul-de-sac. The police blocked the road with their car, but the driver kept looking for an escape.