Doubleview hit and run: Details and pictures emerge as 16-year-old fights for life in hospital

Harrowing details – and CCTV footage – have emerged of a shocking hit and run crash that left a teenager fighting for his life and a trail of destruction along a Doubleview street. Three people are assisting police with their inquiries after the 16-year-old boy was seriously injured in the crash. He is now in a critical condition in Royal Perth Hospital. Police say the teenager was struck by a dark coloured car after an altercation between a group of teenagers in Shearn Crescent in Doubleview just before midnight on Saturday. It’s alleged the car involved, a dark coloured Toyota sedan, did not stop at the scene and was later found abandoned in nearby Williamstown Road. The vehicle also collided with two other cars parked on the street. One woman, who did not want to be named, told The West Australian she knew the boy who was struck. She said the crash happened after a group of youths who had been holding a party at a nearby house got into an argument with a group of young men, some of whom had not been invited to the event. “I heard screaming and smashing of bottles,” the woman said. “I ran (outside) and saw some guys with broken beer bottles going for each-other’s faces and throats. “I immediately yelled out ‘the cops are on their way, break it up.’” The woman said many of those involved in the argument then jumped into the dark coloured Toyota sedan which took off up the street. The woman said the teenager who was struck then chased after the car as it headed towards a roundabout. “They saw him following them,” the woman said. “They went around the roundabout and they went from the correct side of the road...and hit him at about 60 clicks,” the witness said. “He (the teenager) went flying through the air. “I just raced down there and what I found was awful. “He had massive head injuries and blood coming out of his mouth and ears. We got onto the ambulance...and we watched his breathing.” CCTV footage from a nearby home captured the Toyota going around the roundabout just moments before impact. The sound of the collision can be heard on the footage. Travis Smith, whose blue Hyundai Tucson, was smashed into by the dark coloured vehicle that struck the teenager said he rushed outside of his house when he heard a terrible bang in the street. “We went over there and had a look, he was in a bad state,” Mr Smith said of the teenager. “He had a massive laceration to his forehead and bleeding from his ears. “It was a bit of a crazy thing.” Mr Smith’s car was one of two vehicles struck in the street as the dark coloured car sped off from the scene. Police have seized CCTV footage from nearby homes. It’s believed some of that footage captured the horrific collision.

Doubleview hit and run: Details and pictures emerge as 16-year-old fights for life in hospital

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