A 28-year-old Christchurch man has been arrested after stealing a vehicle he hit in a crash.<\/p>\n
Police were called to Queen Elizabeth II Drive after reports the man stole a vehicle following a three-vehicle crash about 9.35pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Senior Sergeant Hamish Keer-Keer said the 28-year-old man had forced a driver he crashed into from their car before leaving the area.<\/p>\n
“It is reported the alleged offender crashed into two stationary vehicles at the intersection with Main North Road, before approaching another car involved in the crash.<\/p>\n
“The man has forced the driver from the car before leaving the area in the vehicle.<\/p>\n
“The stolen car has then been abandoned on Harewood Road where the offender has attempted to take a second vehicle, pulling a person from the driver’s seat.<\/p>\n
“After being unsuccessful in taking the vehicle, the man has abandoned the car before allegedly attempting to unlawfully take three further vehicles.<\/p>\n
“Fortunately, these drivers were able to drive away to safety.<\/p>\n
“A short time later, police located the offender on Papanui Road where he was taken into custody without incident.<\/p>\n
“Following an initial search of the man’s first vehicle located on Queen Elizabeth II Drive, cannabis and items indicating supply were located.<\/p>\n
“Police continue to make enquiries into the circumstances of the incident.<\/p>\n
“While there were no serious injuries, a number of people have been left shaken by this incident and Police are providing them with support.”<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old man is due to appear in Christchurch District Court today, charged with possession of cannabis for supply, careless driving, driving in a dangerous manner, two counts of failing to stop or ascertain injury, and two counts of robbery.<\/p>\n
If you have any information in relation to this incident,\u00a0 get in touch with the police online at\u00a0105.police.govt.nz or call 105.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 28-year-old Christchurch man has been arrested after stealing a vehicle he hit in a crash. Police were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-280605","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\/280605","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=280605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}