A young woman claims a brazen group of teenagers threw rocks at her car near Werribee police station, damaging her windscreen.
The university student, who did not want to be named, said she was driving to her part-time retail job in Werribee about 11.30am on September 26 when she saw three boys and a girl throwing rocks at cars ahead of her. She switched from the left lane to the right to try to avoid them.
“It was too late. I copped a rock right in front of me and it put a hole in my windscreen,” she said.
The woman, 19, said she rang triple-0 to alert police.
She was surprised the youths were throwing rocks so close to a police station.
Her mother, who also didn’t want to be named, said the youths had put her daughter’s life at risk. “What if the rock had gone through the windscreen? The hole it left is in line with my precious, irreplaceable daughter’s head,” she said.
“What if she’d panicked and swerved, hit a tree, or another car. You are old enough to know better and know right from wrong.”
Werribee’s Acting Sergeant Julie Prenc was unaware of the incident and had checked police records for the past few months and found it had not been a recurring problem.
“Over the school holidays there were a number of jobs [for us] from children causing trouble, but this was mainly from the plaza and surrounds.
“There have been ongoing issues with criminal damage and unruly behaviour on buses in the area, but this has been and is being addressed by transit members.”
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