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On Thursday, December 18 at approximately 12:00 a community member posted on the Facbook page Report Witbank Crime that a unknown person in a white GTI Golf with the registration FJV 148 MP drove off with fuel without paying for it at the Total garage in Mandela Street.
A report came through on the Witbank911 channel that the vehicle was spotted in the area of Ext.8.
With a quick response team and an apparent chase the man came to a standstill when he collided with a tree.
He was apprehended and arrested.
![Photo by Quintin De Bruyn of the vehicle that crashed into a tree.](https://images.caxton.co.za/wp-content/uploads/sites/105/2014/12/1395409_10152857416803405_2735803918278582098_n-423x317.jpg)