Wednesday's news in 5 minutes.

1. Six-month-old baby taken in car theft from school pick up.

A mother waiting to pick up her three children from primary school, while her six-month-old lay asleep in her nearby car has been the victim of a carjacking.

The terrifying incident took place outside the Australian International Academy at the intersection of O’Hea and Ross Street in Coburg at about 3pm.

A man took advantage of the fact the mother was outside her vehicle with the keys inside the car and jumped in the Mercedes station wagon driving away at full speed.

“A single male offender was seen getting into the vehicle and driving off,” Victoria Police spokesman Thomas O’Byrne.

“A six-month-old was in the back of the Mercedes at the time.”

A family friend of the baby’s mother dramatically jumped onto the vehicle’s bonnet in an attempt to stop the carjacking but the car got away.

Moreland crime investigation unit detective Senior Constable Virginia Creece said the friend was dragged more than 400m, The Herald Sun reports.

Later the thief dumped the car.

Sen-Constable Creece said when the man dumped the car in Brunswick shortly after, he told a witness he had a baby in the car and didn’t know what to do with it.

The witness found the baby and called 000.

The male thief is described as in his 30s and of European appearance with dark wavy hair. He was wearing a light-coloured top and dark pants at the time.

2. Partner of pedestrian killed in truck accident had “eerie premonition” when he was stuck in a traffic jam caused by her accident.

As Aaron Roberts sat in a traffic jam yesterday he had an eerie premonition. His partner, Danielle McGrath, 26, had been walking to Caringbah train station, in Sydney’s west and Mr Roberts began to frantically call her.

When she did not answer he ran from his car to the front of the traffic jam and there strewn across the road was her handbag.

The 26-year-old had been hit on The Kingsway at Caringbah at 7.30am yesterday.

Her body lay there, covered by a sheet.

The Daily Telegraph reports that Ms McGrath was crossing the road with a green pedestrian signal when she was hit.

The truck driver was charged with dangerous driving occasioning death. He was granted police bail to appear in court next month.

A shop owner told The Daily Telegraph, “He (the partner) was stuck in the traffic and tried to call her mobile but when she didn’t answer he left his car and ran to the scene.”

“It would have been horrible for him to see her lying there on the road, and I think he recognised it was her when he spotted her handbag lying on the road.”

3. US Election: Voter turnout looks to be at unprecedented levels.

The bitter and divisive US presidential race has come to an end with voting right across the US underway.

Long lines at polling sites across the states could push voter turnout to new levels in some places.

Voting began at 6am and some places saw lines from 5am.

In one of his last official speeches before voting began, Mr Trump blasted Mrs Clinton as ’embodying Washington’s corrupt culture’.

While in North Carolina,  Mrs Clinton said the election would be “where we prove conclusively that, yes: love trumps hate.”

Mrs Clinton and her husband, Bill Clinton, cast their ballots at Douglas G. Grafflin Elementary in New York at 8am.

While also in New York the Republican presidential candidates left Trump Tower in a motorcade and headed to a nearby polling center in Manhattan. He was accompanied by his wife, Melania, and daughter Ivanka.

4. US Election: Northern Territory’s appeal for Americans.

The NT Daily has pitched in with their election special using the front cover to make an appeal for Americans to move to the top end.

“We want you” the headline reads with the paper appealing for Americans to leave their country.

“Dear Americans. Today you will have a new President of the United States. No matter who wins, the nation is divided and it is time for you to move.”

5. Aussie couple to face court in Bali.

Australian woman, Sara Connor, and her British boyfriend, David Taylor, will face Denpasar District Court today for the first day of their trial over the death of police officer Wayan Sudarsa. Mr Sudarsa’s bloodied body was discovered on the popular tourist beach in the early hours of August 17.

The 45-year-old mother of two denies having anything to do with the assault on Mr Sudarsa though, according to The Courier Mail, she has admitted she helped destroy evidence after the alleged killing.

Her DJ partner however had admitted to assaulting the police officer but has not admitted to killing him.

The lovers have been held in Kerobokan prison since being moved there last month. Images of the two of them hand in hand walking through the prison have been widely published.

Taylor’s lawyer, Haposan Sihombing, said the relationship between the two was strong and the time together had benefitted them.

“He loves Sara even more. In prison, he has lots of time to spend with Sara.”

6. Jury retires to consider verdict in Nikki Francis-Coslovich trial.

The jury in the trial of John Torney has retired after a difficult trial.

Torney, 32, is accused of beating two-year-old Nikki Francis-Coslovich to death on August 25 last year while her mother and his then girlfriend Peta-Ann Francis was out of the house running errands.

The Age reports that Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth addressed the jury on what it could and could not take into account while coming to a verdict. The jury can find Torney guilty of either murder or manslaughter.

7. Teen dies after being hit in head by golf club by friend.

A 13-year-old boy has died after he was accidentally hit on the head with a golf club by a friend while hunting for cane toads with friends in Maroochydore on Saturday night.

Zeke Douglas, 13, was playing on the abandoned Hazeltine Court, which runs along one boundary of the former Horton Park Golf Course site, when a friend accidentally struck him on the back of the head around 7.30pm.

He was flown to Brisbane’s Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital in a critical condition where he later died.

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