By Steven Symes 
Here in the US, Ford Mustangs are stolen all the time, so to see one swiped in Australia to us seems sadly a little mundane. What’s unusual about this case out of Adelaide is the teenage suspects ended up on a weird bus-only track, where the pony car became stuck.
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Adelaide, Australia has a unique bus-only road that’s really more like concrete train tracks, called the O-Bahn. Its design is to discourage people in cars from entering the route, which allows buses to rapidly travel from the city center to the suburbs.
A little wheel that sticks out by the front steering wheel on the bus presses against the cement curb on the side of the O-Bahn, doing the steering for the driver, who then just maintains a consistent speed. It’s a clever way to keep buses off surface streets and speed up public transit commutes.
We’re assuming the kids thought it would be a great getaway route for the 2016 Mustang they allegedly boosted from the owner’s driveway. Once police tried pulling over the American muscle car, setting up roadblocks to trap the fleeing suspects, the teen driver did the unexpected and hit the O-Bahn.
But without the special wheel to rest against the curb, he had to navigate the sweeping turns on the track by hand with a vehicle that has a much narrowing track width. That obviously didn’t end well as one of the front wheels fell into the space between the cement tracks.
Police were able to track down the four teens aged 14, 14, 16, and 16 after they ran away on foot. Then they had to use a crane to lift the stolen Mustang off the track. What seemed like a cool idea at the time proved to be a horrible plan for escape.
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