{"id":228942,"date":"2026-01-11T23:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T23:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/228942\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T23:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T23:50:07","slug":"mount-maunganui-driver-allegedly-five-times-over-limit-after-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/228942\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Maunganui driver allegedly five times over limit after crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bay of Plenty Times<\/p>\n<p>11 Jan, 2026 09:54 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Police were called to the driving-related incident in Mount Maunganui on Friday morning.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A Mount Maunganui driver faces charges after allegedly blowing five times over the legal alcohol limit and crashing into other vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The 56-year-old woman was charged with drink driving and careless driving after an alleged incident at 11.30am on Friday, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police said they received a report of a<br \/>\n         vehicle  swerving over the road and hitting a pedestrian island on the corner of Marine Parade and Tweed Rd.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cA short time later, the vehicle reportedly rear-ended another at the traffic lights at the intersection of Oceanbeach Rd and Golf Rd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe driver allegedly recorded a breath alcohol reading nearly five times the legal limit, and has been suspended from driving for 28 days.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bay of Plenty Times 11 Jan, 2026 09:54 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,20784,7818,136407,1873,29422,20496,19552,6119,1342,296,6712,50371,17707,13233,111,43,139,69,193,1523,14005,6861],"class_list":["post-228942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-alcohol","tag-allegedly","tag-blowing","tag-charges","tag-crashes","tag-crashing","tag-driver","tag-faces","tag-five","tag-into","tag-legal","tag-limit","tag-maunganui","tag-mount","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-other","tag-over","tag-times","tag-vehicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228942","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=228942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}