Girl critical after being hit by ‘speeding' car at Burswood street meet
WA Police said the 17-year-old was struck by the car on Camfield Drive near Crown Perth around 10pm as a pre-arranged car club meeting was dispersing.
Confronting mobile phone footage shows two cars taking off at speed as a crowd of bystanders watch at the roadside. The second car hits the girl and she flies into the air, the impact of her body shattering the windscreen of the black Honda Civic.
The girl suffered serious internal injuries and was rushed to Royal Perth Hospital in critical condition. The driver, a 25-year-old man, was uninjured.
WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch said he expected the driver to be charged with speeding and dangerous driving.
He confirmed police were aware of the event, with the group of car enthusiasts regularly hosting Monday meets, and that police had been present earlier in the evening, seizing a vehicle.
'[The meets are] normally well-behaved … but it looks like there has been a person allegedly speeding and has hit a pedestrian,' he said.
'I have seen one piece of footage, which is very confronting, of the young girl being hit; I believe there were a number of people filming.'
Blanch said the incident happened at the end of the meet, as people were exiting the area, and the police had left.
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