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Emily Woods

Coroner recommends police chase change after teen death

A coroner says police vehicles should be fitted with better equipment to improve speed estimates. (Diego Fedele/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Victorian police must minimise the dangers in pursuing speeding vehicles after a 16-year-old girl died during a police chase, a coroner has recommended.

Jacqueline Vodden was killed on the Western Freeway in Ballan, northwest of Melbourne, after being flung from the front seat of a van when it crashed into a truck in September 2017.

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