Police are searching for an alleged drink-driver who they say attempted to drive into officers operating a checkpoint in Mosgiel.<\/p>\n
The man was approaching the checkpoint in Hagart-Alexander Dr about 6pm on Saturday, when he was signalled to stop by officers.<\/p>\n
In response, he accelerated up to an excess of 70kmh in the 50kmh zone and sped through the checkpoint, police said.<\/p>\n
He drove at police staff and missed an officer by a metre, Senior Sergeant Anthony Bond said.<\/p>\n
The man then continued past the checkpoint and on the wrong side of the road, forcing multiple oncoming vehicles to take evasive action.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2018We’ve got the number plate, and are making inquiries to identify and speak to the driver,\u2019\u2019 Snr Sgt Bond said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for an alleged drink-driver who they say attempted to drive into officers operating a checkpoint…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-22868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22868","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=22868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}