{"id":240312,"date":"2026-01-19T00:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T00:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/240312\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T00:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T00:17:08","slug":"woman-became-aggressive-at-officers-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/240312\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman became &#8216;aggressive&#8217; at officers after crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An allegedly drunk Dunedin woman assaulted officers after crashing at a roundabout while on a morning drive, police say.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old woman was going through the roundabout in Larnach Rd, Waverley, when she crashed her car, Sergeant Simon Reay, of Dunedin, said.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrived and the woman underwent breath testing procedures.<\/p>\n<p>She recorded a breath alcohol level of 841mcg \u2014 more than three times the legal limit of 250mcg.<\/p>\n<p>The woman then started becoming &#8220;aggressive&#8221;, Sgt Reay said.<\/p>\n<p>She assaulted officers and damaged the inside of the patrol car once she was loaded in, Sgt Reay said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was arrested and charged with excess breath alcohol, resisting police and wilful damage.<\/p>\n<p>Her licence was suspended for 28 days and she received two charges for assaulting police.<\/p>\n<p>She would appear in Dunedin District Court at a later date.<\/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":"An allegedly drunk Dunedin woman assaulted officers after crashing at a roundabout while on a morning drive, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-240312","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\/240312","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=240312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}