14-year-old driver in custody after stolen car takes out power pole, bus shelter in Halifax crash

Police have a 14-year-old youth in custody after a stolen car crashed through a power pole and a bus shelter on Boxing Day.

Halifax Regional Police spokesman Const. John MacLeod said there were no injuries in the crash, which happened on Herring Cove Road over the supper hour Tuesday.

Power was knocked out to the area for a while until repairs could be made.

Police were called shortly before 5 p.m. about a vehicle that had been stolen from Barrington Street earlier in the day. It was spotted a while later in Lower Sackville by RCMP, but the driver refused to pull over and fled the area in an unsafe manner. The RCMP officers didn’t pursue the vehicle but tracked it and tried again without success to pull it over near the MacKay bridge in Halifax.

Halifax Regional Police then started getting calls from the public reporting the car driving dangerously in Halifax, leading polcie to use a spike belt to slow it near 100 Herring Cove Road. It continued on until it hit the shelter and then then pole near Shoreham Lane.

Two passengers fled on foot, but the driver was arrested at the scene.

MacLeod said the teen is expected to appear in court sometime today on charges of dangerous driving, motor vehicle theft, flight from police, possession of stolen property over $5,000, two counts of mischief, one of mischief over $5,000, and one of breach of probation.

The road was closed between Cowie Hill Road and Highfield Street while Nova Scotia Power replaced the damaged poles.

The investigation is continuing. Police are still looking for the two passengers.