A 25-year-old who allegedly stole a car and drove twice the speed limit in Auckland while intoxicated is now facing multiple charges, police say.<\/p>\n
Police were first notified of the stolen vehicle from Channel View Rd in Takapuna late last night.<\/p>\n
Senior Sergeant CJ Miles said police then spotted the vehicle travelling north on Wairau R at about 1am this morning.<\/p>\n
The Police Eagle Helicopter and other units then “flooded” the area, but were unable to locate the vehicle.<\/p>\n
A short time later, police found the vehicle being driven “erratically” on the Albany Expressway.<\/p>\n
Miles said the vehicle was crossing onto the wrong side of the road, and driving at excessive speed “more than twice the posted speed limit”.<\/p>\n
The vehicle then continued through the Albany area before it eventually came to a dead-end street at St Andrews Way, where it appeared the driver was “attempting to take another vehicle”.<\/p>\n
“Police arrived quickly and took the man into custody without further incident.”<\/p>\n
Police tested the man for alcohol and said he was twice the legal driving limit.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s clear he had little regard for anyone else and I\u2019m pleased we could put a stop to this before anyone else was put at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n
The man was due to appear in the North Shore District Court today, charged with unlawfully taking a motor vehicle and driving with excess breath alcohol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 25-year-old who allegedly stole a car and drove twice the speed limit in Auckland while intoxicated is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-313910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313910","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=313910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}