ATM thieves in Adelaide Hills ram Cudlee Creek Tavern to steal hundreds of dollars

Dramatic vision has captured the moment two thieves ram raid a family-owned restaurant all to make away with an ATM almost empty of cash.

CCTV footage of Cudlee Creek Tavern, in South Australia’s Adelaide Hills shows a pair slam a stolen white Mazda into the businesses front door around 4.30am on Saturday.

The crooks then tie the ATM to the back of the car to dislodge it before taking multiple attempts to hoist the heavy machine into the small hatchback.

The machine barely fits so the thieves are forced to drive off with the boot open as parts of the ATM spilled out of the car.

At 5.30am emergency services were called to Angas Creek Rd after reports of a white Mazda on fire.

At 6am Queensland Police were alerted to the theft, with checks of the burnt out car revealing it was the vehicle used in the ram raid and was stolen from Brompton last week. 

Police were alerted to the ATM on the side of a road in Millbrook around 8.30am.

Andy Fischer the co-owner of the Cudlee Creek Tavern told 9News the thieves caused mass damage to the front of his business, all for a few hundred dollars.

‘Our ATMs are basically nearly empty every night so it is basically pointless taking it,’ he said.

The owner of the tavern has been left with a costly mess to clean up and says the whole front of the premises will need to be rebuilt. 

Anyone with information about the incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.

At 5.30am emergency services were called to Angas Creek Rd after reports of a white Mazda on fire, with checks revealing it was stolen and was the car used in the earlier ram raid