Teenagers die after crashing stolen car in Melbourne's south-east

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Two teenagers have died in a car crash at Rowville, in Melbourne's south-east. Victoria Police said the vehicle was stolen from Knoxfield earlier in the night. The teenagers are yet to be formally identified.

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00:00Two teenagers have died after the stolen car they were driving crashed into a tree here

00:07on Callots Road in Roeville, southeast of Melbourne, in the early hours of this morning.

00:13All that's left is a mangled wreck.

00:15The males died at the scene.

00:16The damage is so extensive they'll need to be identified through DNA.

00:21Major Collision Unit detectives have spent the day here combing the scene trying to establish

00:25exactly what led up to the crash.

00:27They do know there may have been another car involved.

00:31Obviously we know there are two cars that were taken.

00:34One obviously has been recovered and there is the one that's outstanding so we are desperately

00:39looking for that vehicle and we're looking through all avenues of inquiry to try and

00:43identify the people involved.

00:44Some nearby residents were woken by the noise of the impact and they describe it as strange,

00:49saying they didn't hear any screeching brakes, just a dull thud.

00:52This is the latest in a series of police incidents in Roeville over the past week, including

00:57a stabbing, an armed hold-up in a milk bar and an alleged kidnapping.

01:02Some locals say they no longer feel safe here.

01:05It's shocking, it's really, really worrying and scary and I just, again I just feel sorry

01:15for the kids and the families and their friends.

01:20They need to get stricter, they need to put their foot down, they're getting away with

01:26everything at the moment, so they're just getting slaps on the wrist.

01:31Police will investigate whether speed or the other vehicle were factors in the crash.

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