The media conference story
Here is the real news story that I created your media conference story from…with certain facts taken out. It was reported in the Herald Sun.
What do you think?
Police have saved a man from a burning car that crashed after a rock was hauled through the windscreen, knocking out the driver.
The two detectives from Frankston police were on patrol just after midnight last night when they witnessed a showdown between three men in the car and a group of four men throwing rocks and bottles on the road, causing the fiery smash.
The car occupants, in their twenties, were travelling north on Nepean Highway, in Frankston, when a bottle was thrown at their car by the group of men near the McDonalds restaurant in Wells St.
When they turned around and drove back, a rock was also thrown, smashing through the rear windscreen.
The car turned around again to be confronted by the four men in the middle of the road. One of the men through a second bluestone rock through the front windscreen of the car, striking the driver on the head and knocking him out.
The car then crashed into an embankment wall and burst into flames, just as Detective Sen-Constable Darren Paxton and Detective Sen-Constable Craig Small pulled out of a side street.
The officers dragged the driver and front passenger from the Nissan Pulsar as the rock throwers fled.
“You could see flames coming from the undercarriage of the car,” Sen-Constable Paxton said.
“Once we had them out, I grabbed the fire extinguisher and put the flames out.”
The driver was taken to hospital with head injuries while one passenger was also treated with a suspected broken arm.
Police wish to speak to two Caucasian men and two men of Islander appearance who were at the scene.
Witnesses or anyone with information should contact Crimestoppers on 1800 333 000.
Comments (1)
It starts with so much excitement than is really warranted and so many descriptive words. I was surprised the writer sounds like an eye witness themselves which seems incorrect.
It’s a bit repetitive too – they’ve mentioned the rock and bottle throwing about four times when it was my understanding that it happened twice and only allegedly. Maybe it’s out of context as we had a mock media conf, but it thought this was a strange take on the article!