{"id":838545,"date":"2026-08-01T21:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T21:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/838545\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T21:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T21:35:10","slug":"car-slams-into-jackjumpers-new-20m-high-performance-centre-in-kingston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/838545\/","title":{"rendered":"Car slams into JackJumpers\u2019 new $20M high performance centre in Kingston"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police are searching for the driver of a brown 1999 Commodore station wagon that crashed into the Jack Jumpers High Performance Centre in Kingston on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

The $20 million facility only opened on Thursday after years of planning and construction.<\/p>\n

The incident began around 10pm when uniform police patrolling the Kingston area tried to intercept the Commodore on Kingston View Drive.<\/p>\n

The driver allegedly evaded officers and the vehicle turned off Kingston View Drive before police lost sight of it.<\/p>\n

A short time later, the car was seen driving across the grassed area in front of the centre before crashing into the building.<\/p>\n

\"\"The car was removed shortly before midnight<\/p>\n

Police say a male occupant was seen fleeing the scene on foot.<\/p>\n

Damage to the building is understood to be limited to a retaining wall and a window frame.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no event on at the centre and no persons were injured,\u201d a Tasmania Police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

Tasmania Police insisted that its officers were not pursuing the vehicle at the time of the crash, sending a \u201csenior officer\u201d to the scene to examine the circumstances.<\/p>\n

Police are now appealing for witnesses who may have seen the vehicle being driven erratically in the Kingston area.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information, dashcam or CCTV footage is urged to contact Tasmania Police on 131 444 and quote incident number 437-01082026.<\/p>\n

Information can also be provided anonymously to Crime Stoppers Tasmania on 1800 333 000 or at crimestopperstas.com.au.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for the driver of a brown 1999 Commodore station wagon that crashed into the Jack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-838545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}