A night of stolen car hooning in an outback town has ended in a fatal crash after teens allegedly provoked police and threw a hammer at a patrol car.
A 16-year-old boy is dead and five other teens have been injured after a car rolled on a major Northern Territory highway in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
The fatal crash occurred after the stolen vehicle's occupants attempted to provoke officers and threw a hammer and other objects that damaged a patrol car at Katherine, police said.
The car rolled on the Stuart Highway north of the Katherine CBD about 6am on Tuesday, critically injuring the 16-year-old.
He died at the scene despite the efforts of paramedics to save him, police said.
