{"id":351492,"date":"2026-03-28T01:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T01:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/351492\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T01:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T01:08:09","slug":"nelson-police-stunned-by-driver-nearly-five-times-over-drink-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/351492\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson police \u2018stunned\u2019 by driver nearly five times over drink limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe caller rang police about 6.45pm on Thursday, to say a vehicle was \u2018all over the road\u2019 and had three near-misses with other motorists. <\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe car in question was driving northbound on Tahunanui Drive before pulling over at a convenience store.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">By this time, three units were looking for the \u201cswerving\u201d vehicle, which was eventually stopped by police on Bishopdale Ave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">The man was arrested and charged with driving with excess breath alcohol and is due to appear in Nelson District Court in late April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">He has been suspended from driving for 28 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe caller rang police about 6.45pm on Thursday, to say a vehicle was \u2018all over the road\u2019 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20784,11924,1558,82055,3595,13239,36979,19552,1342,42,2959,6712,50371,6267,11692,91,43,1523,675,186233,20247,765,14005,40,38,41,39,19054],"class_list":["post-351492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alcohol","tag-arrested","tag-been","tag-breath","tag-by","tag-charged","tag-drink","tag-driver","tag-five","tag-headlines","tag-high","tag-legal","tag-limit","tag-male","tag-nearly","tag-nelson","tag-news","tag-over","tag-police","tag-shockingly","tag-stunned","tag-test","tag-times","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-turned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351492","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=351492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}