Overview
- Police say a 33-year-old Hilton man died at the scene after an allegedly stolen blue Ford crashed shortly after road spikes were deployed near Kimba about 2:45pm Saturday.
- Officers were first alerted after a petrol drive-off in Port Augusta around 10:30am, briefly initiated a pursuit, then terminated it for safety reasons.
- A police helicopter later tracked the vehicle from Iron Knob Road onto the Eyre Highway toward Kimba after multiple sightings near Whyalla.
- Assistant Commissioner Ian Parrott said the car reached about 180km/h, at times drove on the wrong side of the road, and narrowly missed an officer as it sped from a rest stop before crashing less than two kilometres away.
- Major Crash and SA Police’s Internal Investigation Section have opened inquiries, with investigators returning to the scene, and the Eyre Highway between Kimba and Iron Knob has reopened.