Man charged with stealing and crashing hearse

A man has been charged aft allegedly stealing a hearse from a Gold Coast ceremonial location and crashing it astatine an intersection.

Events began astir 4.50am coming erstwhile nan 38-year-old allegedly collapsed into Integrity Funerals astatine Tonga Place successful Parkwood and stole a hearse.

Less than 10 minutes later, nan conveyance collided pinch a van and car astatine nan intersection of Olsen and Musgrave avenues and Napper Road.

Images from nan segment of nan clang shows each nan vehicles severely damaged.

The effect caused nan Mercedes van to extremity connected its side.

Police soon arrived and arrested nan man driving nan hearse earlier he was taken to infirmary for observation.

A man driving 1 of nan vehicles was trapped wrong his car earlier being freed by firefighters, while a 51-year-old female driver of nan different conveyance was uninjured.

A 38-year-old Broadbeach man has been charged pinch entering a premises and committing an indictable offence, unlawful usage of centrifugal vehicle, vulnerable cognition of a conveyance and adversely affected by an intoxicating constituent and driving without a licence.

The ceremonial location told 9News unit person been near "shaken" by nan incident but "no changes ceremonial services from today".

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