crash on September 23<\/a> occurred at the intersection of Jellicoe St and Halsey St and left Curtis\u2019 Tesla and a taxi badly damaged.<\/p>\nAccording to the NZ Herald, the taxi driver\u2019s vehicle had to be cut open for emergency services to get to them.<\/p>\n
Two people were taken to hospital, one in a serious condition and one moderate, while a third suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n
Police today confirmed charges had been laid.<\/p>\n
\u201cA 58-year-old man has been summonsed for reckless driving and driving with excess blood alcohol,” a spokesperson said. \u201cHe will appear in Auckland District Court on 15 October.\u201d <\/p>\n
Last week, a statement was released on Curtis\u2019 behalf, saying he had suffered internal injuries in the crash and was admitted to hospital.<\/p>\n
The statement said he helped with first aid until emergency services arrived. <\/p>\n
\u201cI am deeply saddened by this incident,” Curtis said. “My thoughts are with those who were hurt, and their families at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The statement added he was “collaborating fully with relevant authorities”. <\/p>\n
Curtis declined to comment further when approached through a PR agency today. <\/p>\n
Curtis appeared in hit films such as Once Were Warriors, Training Day and Avatar. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiwi actor Cliff Curtis has been charged after a crash in downtown Auckland last month injured three people.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":917860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,22065,63,447,8513,134,344],"class_list":["post-917859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-auckland","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917859","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=917859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}