By Zoe Moffatt

A 30-year-old man has been charged in Alice Springs after allegedly repeatedly ramming his LandCruiser into a woman’s car before dragging her from the vehicle and physically assaulting her, then forcing her into his car and driving off, NT Police have said.

NT police spokesperson Rob Cross said in a statement, the man who was driving the four-wheel drive, allegedly pursued and rammed a 24-year-old woman’s vehicle multiple times before assaulting her when her car stopped in the middle of the road on Schwarz Crescent about 5.30am on Saturday morning.

Mr Cross said the man then allegedly put her in his car and drove off. Police saw him driving along Schwarz Crescent and tried to stop him.

Police then chased his car north on the Stuart Highway for 20km, before stopping the pursuit near the Tanami Road turn off.

Mr Cross said the man was arrested “without incident” after he started driving back into Alice Springs.

The woman was found in the vehicle with facial injuries and non-life threatening body injuries, he said.

Police also alleged the man significantly damaged a vehicle in Charles Creek camp prior to assaulting the woman.

The man has been charged and is due to face Alice Springs Local Court on August 18 on two counts each of criminal damage, aggravated assault, and recklessly endangering life, and on one count each of failure to stop after a crash, deprivation of liberty, dangerous driving in a pursuit, failure to obey directions of a police officer to stop, unlawful use of a motor vehicle, and being armed with controlled weapon at night.

Schwarz Crescent is closed while police process the crime scene, he said.