A 16-year-old girl has been charged with multiple traffic offences after allegedly stealing a car from Darwin and crashing it into the Palmerston Shopping Centre, NT Police said.

NT Police media manager Margaret McKeown said in a statement that at a non-specified time in the early hours of Wednesday morning the girl allegedly stole a Lexus from a Darwin city apartment block and drove the vehicle to Palmerston.

She said at 4:45am, the girl lost control of the vehicle at a Temple Terrace roundabout and crashed into a shopping centre and then ran away. But Ms McKeown said, the girl was arrested at a unspecified time, described as a “short time” later.

The NT Independent believes that shopping centre was the Palmerston Shopping Centre.

The girl has been charged with use of a vehicle without consent, driving a vehicle recklessly, driving a motor vehicle while unlicensed, and not stopping after a crash. and was remanded to appear in court today, Ms McKeown said.