{"id":23738,"date":"2025-09-15T12:38:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T12:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/23738\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T12:38:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T12:38:18","slug":"two-injured-as-drunk-dunedin-teen-crashes-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/23738\/","title":{"rendered":"Two injured as drunk Dunedin teen crashes: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Dunedin teenager more than three times over the adult drink driving limit smashed into two parked cars in a crash that led to two people being injured.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old was driving down Malvern St, Glenleith, at 6.15am on Sunday when he crashed into into two parked cars on the street, Sergeant Anthony Bond, of Dunedin, said.<\/p>\n<p>One of the vehicles came to rest in a local resident\u2019s front yard.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services attended the scene and had the teenager undergo breath testing procedures.<\/p>\n<p>He recorded a breath alcohol level of 880mcg \u2014 the legal limit for people under 20 is 0mcg, and the adult legal limit is 250mcg.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager was referred to Youth Aid.<\/p>\n<p>A Hato Hone St John spokesman said they responded with one ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>One patient in a minor condition and one patient in a moderate condition were assessed and treated at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/news\/dunedin\/mailto:laine.priestley@odt.co.nz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">laine.priestley@odt.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dunedin teenager more than three times over the adult drink driving limit smashed into two parked cars&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-23738","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\/23738","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=23738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}