CASEY Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged a man following an alleged car theft and hit and run outside a Berwick hospital on Wednesday morning, April 23.
The 25-year-old man, of no fixed address, has been charged with several offences including:
* theft of motor vehicle
* dangerous driving causing serious injury
* unlicensed driving
* reckless conduct endanger life
* failing to render assistance
The charges follow an alleged incident where a woman was accompanying her husband from their Ford Territory to a hospital entrance on Kangan Drive around 11.20am.
The 25-year-old man allegedly got into the vehicle, then struck the woman as she attempted to stop him from driving away.
The 66-year-old woman was transported to another hospital where she is in a critical condition.
Detectives arrested the 25-year-old man in Pioneer Bay on Wednesday afternoon and the Ford was recovered nearby.
He was remanded to appear at Dandenong Magistrate’s Court later on Thursday.