{"id":480793,"date":"2026-06-03T10:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/480793\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T10:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:58:08","slug":"uninsured-cocaine-driver-arrested-after-bid-to-avoid-gardai-ends-in-ditch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/480793\/","title":{"rendered":"Uninsured cocaine driver arrested after bid to avoid Gardai ends in ditch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An uninsured cocaine-fulled provisional driver crashed into a ditch while trying to evade Garda\u00ed in Inishowen.<\/p>\n<p>The dramatic incident unfolded\u00a0on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Buncrana Garda\u00ed were operating a crime prevention checkpoint when a driver turned away from them and sped off.<\/p>\n<p>However, the attempted getaway came to an abrupt end when the vehicle crashed into a ditch a short distance away.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, a provisional licence holder, was arrested after being located nearby by Garda\u00ed and subsequent roadside testing returned a positive result for cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed also discovered that the vehicle was uninsured and it was immediately seized.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was later charged to appear in court.<\/p>\n<p>A Garda spokesperson warned: \u201cNever take dangerous and unnecessary risks on the roads.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An uninsured cocaine-fulled provisional driver crashed into a ditch while trying to evade Garda\u00ed in Inishowen. The dramatic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-480793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}