Cemetery crash
A LEARNER driver has been lucky to walk away unharmed after her car drove in to a fence at the Healesville Cemetery after being pursued by police.
The driver, a 25-year-old female from Forest Hill, had been pursued by police along Badger Creek Road on the evening of Saturday 20 July.
At around 11.20pm the driver lost control of the vehicle, a Commodore sedan, before colliding with the cemetery fence.
The car contained three passengers and although there was extensive damage to the fence and to the vehicle, which is expected by police to be written off, no one was injured in the collision.
Police processed the driver for drink-driving and traffic related offences and Healesville Police Sergeant Stewart Thomson said the occupants of the car were lucky to walk away uninjured.
Couple injured
AN ELDERLY couple were taken to Maroondah Hospital on 14 July after their car hit a tree.
The 79-year-old female Chum Creek driver was travelling along Chum Creek Road about 4.50pm before police said she crossed onto the wrong side of the road around a corner and hit a tree.
She was taken with her husband to Maroondah Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Police believe fatigue may have been a factor in the accident.
