{"id":229308,"date":"2026-01-12T05:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T05:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/229308\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T05:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T05:16:08","slug":"pedestrian-injured-police-car-rammed-in-nelson-hit-and-run-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/229308\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian injured, police car rammed in Nelson hit\u2011and\u2011run incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is due to appear in court today after allegedly hitting and assaulting a pedestrian in Nelson, fleeing the scene and later ramming a police car in Marlborough.<\/p>\n<p>Police received a report of a vehicle crashing into a fence and hitting a pedestrian at around 8pm in the Nelson suburb of Atawhai.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian was then assaulted, sustaining moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Marlborough area commander Inspector Simon Feltham said police tracked the car involved in the incident, which was sighted &#8220;some time later&#8221; on State Highway 6 near Okaramio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police signalled the vehicle to pull over, but the offender swerved into the travelling police car behind them,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The crash blocked the road with both vehicles badly damaged.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man and the police officer both sustained minor injuries and were taken to hospital, where they were recovering, he said.<\/p>\n<p>A 36-year-old man was due to appear in Blenheim District Court today facing charges including wounding with intent, strangulation, common assault, unlawful taking of a motor vehicle, taking a bank card for pecuniary advantage, wilful damage and refusing a request for a blood test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is due to appear in court today after allegedly hitting and assaulting a pedestrian in Nelson,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,16256,91,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-229308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-marlborough","tag-nelson","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229308","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=229308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}