Police and Emergencies

  • Truck driver hurt in highway crash

    THE driver of a seafood truck had a lucky escape when his vehicle went off the Princes Highway west of Colac.

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  • Drug arrests up but crime rate down

    COLAC and district’s overall crime rate has fallen despite an increase in drug arrests.

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  • College security system alerts police

    A COLAC boy, 17, missed out on a speedy getaway when he allegedly attempted to steal a motorbike from a Colac college at the weekend.

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  • Hurt Colac rider trapped in US

    A COLAC man is trying to make the best of a bad and unique situation that resembles a Hollywood movie script.

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  • Hammer attack mum shares her story

    COLAC’S Monica Robbins will never know why her husband brutally attacked her with a hammer, leaving her wheelchair-bound and blind in one eye.

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  • Wheelchair trapped under taxi after collision

    A COLAC woman was lucky to escape unharmed when her electric wheelchair and a taxi collided.

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  • $2-million pledge for safer places

    THE STATE Government has set aside more than $2 million for bushfire safer places in the Otways.

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  • ‘Stupid’ learners caught in unregistered car

    POLICE have caught learner drivers in the same unregistered car twice in an hour.

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