Thief driving car crashes into electric pole on the way to escape
Being chased by police while breaking into a house, two thieves drove a car and broke an electric pole, one of them broke his leg and shoulder.
At around 3am on October 8, 5 young men in a 4-seat Kia car and a motorbike parked next to the 3-storey house of Mr. Vu Thanh Chung (55 years old) on National Highway 1K, Linh Xuan Ward, Thu Duc District, Ho Chi Minh City. Two of them were wearing jackets, masks and gloves, and hats with flashlights on the front, climbed over the gate, and walked along the trees to avoidcamera
After breaking the back door, one of the burglars went to the first floor to search for keys to open the glass doors and the garage door for four motorbikes. The other guy went upstairs to look for property.
Hearing the noise, the homeowner's daughter (28 years old) came out of her room to check and saw a stranger so she shouted to alert the four members of the family. The two thieves ran down to the ground floor and climbed over the gate to escape.
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| The group of thieves' car crashed into an electric pole. Photo: Dinh Van |
The ward police were patrolling and discovered and chased him. One of them escaped on foot. The two drivers ran away 800 meters and then crashed into two electric poles in front of the People's Committee of Linh Xuan Ward, Thu Duc District. One of them was pulled out of the deformed car by two accomplices on a motorbike and taken away. The other was injured and stuck in the front seat and was taken to the hospital by the police.
According to the homeowner, the groupthiefThey took the iPhone 10, the piggy bank with several hundred thousand and a handbag but only had documents inside. "My daughter has a habit of sleeping with the door open so she discovered it in time, otherwise they would have taken all the motorbike and property," said Mr. Chung.
Mr. Vu Quoc Bao, Chairman of Linh Xuan Ward People's Committee, said that the thief was taken to the emergency room with a broken leg and a broken shoulder bone, and the police are taking his statement.