Overview

• Officers attempted to block a stolen white LandCruiser outside the centre around 4pm but the male driver drove through glass doors into the mall instead.
• All shops were evacuated and a witness reported about 70 people barricading themselves inside a Kmart store for safety.
• No one was struck by the vehicle, though one woman was treated for shock and two others were assessed by paramedics without hospitalisation.
• The SUV exited towards Wood Street in Preston and has not been located, with police continuing their search for the driver.
• This marks the second lockdown at the shopping complex in under a month, following a machete brawl that led to new anti-machete legislation.