A car chase to remember
2004-11-11 14:15
Sydney - Australian police believe they may have set a world record on Thursday when they pursued a man and woman in a stolen BMW saloon for 600 kilometres across the Nullarbor Plain between Adelaide and Perth.
The high-speed car chase ended only when the high-performance car ran out of fuel.
The chase began when the driver failed to pay for petrol at Wirrulla, about 100 kilometres east of Ceduna on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula.
The pursuit ended when police alerted petrol stations in their path to close shop so the pair could not refuel.
The car rolled to a stop 170 kilometres west of Eucla, in Western Australia, where the occupants were arrested. - Sapa-dpa
- SAPA