{"id":319089,"date":"2026-03-08T11:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T11:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/319089\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T11:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T11:36:13","slug":"driver-rams-police-car-on-christchurch-northern-motorway-flees-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/319089\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver rams police car on Christchurch Northern motorway, flees scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A out of control driver rammed a police vehicle after refusing to stop on Christchurch\u2019s Northern motorway early this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police signalled for the vehicle to stop near the Belfast Road off ramp at about 3.30am after it was seen travelling at excessive speed.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Sergeant Kerry Joyce told chrislynchmedia.com the driver refused to stop for police and rammed the Police vehicle, before fleeing towards Marshland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The force of the collision caused the airbags inside the vehicle to deploy.<\/p>\n<p>Joyce said the driver had not yet been located and enquiries were ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The police vehicle sustained moderate damage and was not driveable.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A out of control driver rammed a police vehicle after refusing to stop on Christchurch\u2019s Northern motorway early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[373,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-319089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-featured","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319089","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=319089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}