The 28-year-old has been charged with 20 offences after crashing an allegedly stolen ute into a house and trying to swim away from police during three hours of chaos on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
Police pulled over the Nissan Pulsar for speeding but when officers approached the driver's side of the vehicle, the car accelerated, striking a Senior Constable.
A woman has died after she was allegedly hit by a car whose driver did not stop, with the impact pushing her into the path of another car on New South Wales' Central Coast.
An 18-year-old driver who allegedly ran down three schoolboys in Sydney's north last month called his mother after panicking and fleeing the scene, his lawyer says.
Police are on the hunt for information after a driver deliberately ran down a man in Sydney's inner west before threatening him with an axe in an apparent act of road rage.