{"id":116613,"date":"2025-11-04T01:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T01:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/116613\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T01:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T01:41:11","slug":"driver-on-rim-spins-out-on-northwestern-motorway-after-police-spiking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/116613\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver on rim spins out on Northwestern Motorway after police spiking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">He decided to begin filming as the driver started to spin out across multiple lanes before coming to a stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">The car was reportedly quickly surrounded by police officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe\u2019re  turned around and then there\u2019s like five cop cars that just started jumping out their cars and just trying to catch him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">The witness said the driver did not hit any other vehicles but caused traffic backlogs as other motorists were blocked by the chaotic scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">A police spokesperson said officers encountered the vehicle, which had been stolen, in Lynfield at 10.35am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cEagle was able to follow the car at a distance as it drove along State Highway 20. A short time later the vehicle was spiked at Onehunga.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">Police followed the driver onto the Northwestern Motorway where two young people were taken into custody at the scene. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He decided to begin filming as the driver started to spin out across multiple lanes before coming to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2840,74,3952,138,19552,11583,3950,4507,1304,3945,111,139,34608,69,90,3111,675,82787,11786,13109,82789,82788,82790,4736,1961,3946,6845],"class_list":["post-116613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-across","tag-after","tag-aucklands","tag-business","tag-driver","tag-halted","tag-lanes","tag-late","tag-morning","tag-motorway","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-northwestern","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-out","tag-police","tag-rim","tag-runaway","tag-several","tag-spiking","tag-spins","tag-spun","tag-stolen","tag-this","tag-traffic","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}