A girl who injured two law enforcement officials by hitting them along with her automobile at a McDonald’s drive-through earlier than main different officers on a high-speed pursuit by Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs has been sentenced to greater than 5 years in jail.
Employees on the Seaford quick meals outlet referred to as police when Courtney Pollard appeared drug affected and sat slumped on the steering wheel of her Ford Focus after inserting an order on December 29, 2020.
Courtney Pollard has been jailed for 5 years and 4 months.Credit score:Fb
However when police arrived, Pollard jolted alert, refused to get out and rammed the divvy van in entrance of her. Then she reversed, pinning one officer in opposition to a brick wall, earlier than accelerating ahead and operating over a policewoman’s leg.
Pollard then drove from the outlet, and over the following 50 minutes, the County Courtroom heard on Thursday, sped erratically by close by suburbs whereas pursued by police automobiles and tracked by their helicopter.
Throughout the pursuit Pollard repeatedly sped on the improper aspect of the street, went by purple lights, drove alongside nature strips, compelled different motorists to swerve out of the way in which and was at one stage clocked at 170km/h.
Choose Gavan Meredith mentioned Pollard continued driving even after police used street spikes to blow out her entrance tyre in Springvale, and after she collided with a Holden Commodore in Clayton. She finally crashed right into a tree in Burwood, 37 kilometres from Seaford.
Courtney Pollard crashed her automobile right into a tree on this Burwood avenue.Credit score:9 Information
Along with her automobile motionless, Pollard bumped into a house and requested the occupant for a glass of water, Meredith mentioned. The occupant refused, so Pollard ran right into a neighbouring dwelling the place she was tackled and arrested by three officers.
Pollard, 29, who has an extended historical past of drug use and street offending, was on Thursday jailed for 5 years and 4 months after pleading responsible to 17 costs, together with reckless conduct endangering life, deliberately exposing emergency employees to threat by driving and recklessly inflicting severe damage to an emergency companies employee.
