Four teenagers driving a stolen BMW SUV rammed a garda car in Cork early this morning and reportedly drove on the wrong side of the road as they attempted to flee.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed came across the teenagers, aged between 14 and 19, trying to break into cars in the Kinsale area of Co Cork.<\/p>\n
Shortly after 2:30am, garda\u00ed on active patrol in the Belgooly area attempted to stop a vehicle with multiple occupants as it left a residential estate.<\/p>\n
The teenagers, who were in a BMW SUV stolen from Rochestown, a Cork city suburb, tried to escape, ramming a Garda patrol car and driving on the wrong side of the road.<\/p>\n
A garda car was damaged in the ramming incident, but no garda\u00ed were injured.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed, including armed garda\u00ed, responded, pursuing the vehicle through towns and country roads in the Kinsale, Belgooly and Riverstick areas.<\/p>\n
A stinger device was laid on a road by garda\u00ed to stop the fleeing stolen vehicle, but the SUV broke down near Ballinhassig village shortly before 3am, before reaching the stinger device.<\/p>\n
The teenagers fled on foot and garda\u00ed pursued them through fields in the dark.<\/p>\n
Four teenagers, aged between 14 and 19, were subsequently arrested. Some of the teenagers are suspected of involvement in a number of car thefts.<\/p>\n
The youths were detained in garda stations in Bandon and Clonakilty under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984.<\/p>\n
The recovered vehicle, a BMW X5, had been stolen earlier in the night during a burglary at a residence in the Rochestown area of Cork. It has been seized for technical examination.<\/p>\n
No injuries were reported during the incident.<\/p>\n
Investigations are ongoing, a garda spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four teenagers driving a stolen BMW SUV rammed a garda car in Cork early this morning and reportedly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,79,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-604302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604302","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=604302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}