He said police told him they didn’t have time to investigate and that he should report the matter to Crime Stoppers. “I gave them the description of the vehicle and the driver,” Mr Pawelek said of his first call, to triple zero at 4pm on Monday. “He was a Caucasian male with passengers in the car.” The triple zero operator offered to pass the information to police, he said. Loading When the car continued doing burnouts near his house on Monday night, he said he walked up to the vehicle. When he was about 40 metres away from the car, the occupants in the car screamed at him out of the window, he said.

After Mr Pawelek went to work on Tuesday morning, his wife Sarah Colley phoned him from home and said the car had returned about 10:30am. He then called Narre Warren Police to report that the car was being again driven erratically. “I told [the police] I suspect it’s a stolen vehicle,” he said. “I didn’t have the rego.” Mr Pawelek said police told him they didn’t “have the time or the resources to investigate this further” and suggested he report the incident to Crime Stoppers. Police are calling for anyone who saw the car earlier in the day to contact Crime Stoppers. Credit:ABC News

“Crime Stoppers said that I need to provide the full name and residential address of the hoons, so they know where to find him,” he said of his third attempt to report the matter. The Crime Stoppers operator told Mr Pawelek they could send a highway patrol car if he could provide the exact time and place of the next incident. Loading Replay Replay video Play video Play video When Mr Pawelek returned from work on Tuesday afternoon, he went searching for the car to try and record the registration. “Just around the corner from my house I saw police lights and I thought, he’s probably hit someone,” he said. “And then driving to work this morning I heard about the crash,” he told The Age on Wednesday.

“It made me really angry that none of the police members decided to do anything about it,” he said. “It could have been easily prevented because [the driver] kept doing burnouts for most of the day and through the night.” Police want anyone who saw the car driving erratically in the area on Tuesday to come forward. Credit:Channel Seven News Joseph Mery, whose home backs on to the same street, heard the collision on Monday afternoon and looked over the back of his fence to see what happened. “The car was smashed into the pole,” he said. “I saw three kids sitting on my side of the road. The driver had fled the scene.”

The wheels were still spinning when Mr Mery pulled a female passenger with head injuries out of the car. “Another neighbour helped me to put her in the recovery position,” he said. “It was pretty overwhelming.” Other residents had also reported witnessing dangerous driving in the neighborhood hours before the crash, he said, and had recorded footage of the "hooning". The Age has sought a response from Victoria Police to Mr Pawelek's requests for officers to attend.

On Monday night police called for anyone with information about the driver to come forward, and said they believed the same car was seen driving erratically earlier in the day close to where the smash happened. The teenage girl has been taken to the Royal Children's Hospital with head injuries and remained in a critical condition on Wednesday. Two other teenagers, a girl and a boy aged between 13 to 15 years old, remain in a stable condition at Dandenong Hospital. The girl suffered minor injuries to her head and knee, while the boy had minor ankle injuries. Another boy aged between 13 to 15 is in a stable condition at Monash Medical Centre with a leg injury. The vehicle involved in the crash was reported stolen from Springvale on August 30.

Anyone with information should contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.