POLICE have charged three people linked to the theft of a luxury car and the ramming of a police vehicle in Coburg.

Police were called to the intersection of Brunswick and Cramer streets about 11.10am to reports three men were trying to steal a car.

When police arrived one of the men drove off in the BMW and rammed it into the police car.

The driver of the stolen BMW is still on the run.

He was last seen fleeing on Boundary Rd, Pascoe Vale, after the stolen car crashed into a tree.

Two men and a woman were arrested at the scene of the car theft and charged with theft from motor vehicle and drug offences.

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