Four teenage boys have been charged after a suspected stolen car sped through a busy shopping mall and hit a pedestrian.

The white BMW was seen being driven erratically on the Eastern Freeway at Doncaster in Melbourne's east early on Monday afternoon.

Police followed it into the CBD, where the SUV struck a woman on Exhibition Street.

She suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to hospital for observation.

The car was dumped in Bourke Street Mall and the occupants fled on foot before being arrested outside a shopping centre on Lonsdale Street.

Two 17-year-olds and two 16-year-olds from the Bendigo and Yarra Ranges were arrested and charged with an array of offences, including theft of a motor vehicle, conduct endangering life, aggravated home invasion and theft.

One of th

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