{"id":140857,"date":"2025-11-18T08:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/140857\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T08:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:05:10","slug":"rotorua-police-arrest-19-year-old-who-allegedly-injured-two-people-with-car-during-burnouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/140857\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotorua police arrest 19-year-old who allegedly injured two people with car during burnouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Rotorua road policing manager Senior Sergeant John Stapleford said police know people attend these activities with the perception they are harmless. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBut that is far from reality,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cYou\u2019ve got people throwing vehicles around like they\u2019re toys. These are vehicles that weigh over a tonne, being driven in an out-of-control manner \u2013 the potential for harm is huge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Stapleford said the charges put forward to the courts show police\u2019s commitment to ensuring serious actions face serious consequences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Police continue to investigate the matter and are not ruling out further charges against other people involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rotorua road policing manager Senior Sergeant John Stapleford said police know people attend these activities with the perception&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33914,74,7818,14466,1558,72159,3944,13239,2837,42,10933,6793,43,86828,384,675,1327,40,38,41,39,1237,1299,102],"class_list":["post-140857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-19yearold","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-arrest","tag-been","tag-burnouts","tag-car","tag-charged","tag-during","tag-headlines","tag-injured","tag-injuring","tag-news","tag-outofcontrol","tag-people","tag-police","tag-rotorua","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-two","tag-who","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140857","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=140857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}