{"id":400792,"date":"2026-04-28T01:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/400792\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T01:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:32:13","slug":"young-driver-killed-fleeing-police-in-invercargill-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/400792\/","title":{"rendered":"Young driver killed fleeing police in Invercargill named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young driver killed in a fatal crash while fleeing police in central Invercargill has been named.<\/p>\n<p>He was 23-year-old Enoch Carlisle, from the Southland District.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened in the early hours of Sunday, March 22, when\u00a0police signalled for a vehicle to stop in Kelvin St.<\/p>\n<p>Southland area commander Inspector Mike Bowman said the driver failed to stop and then fled.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was not pursued by police.<\/p>\n<p>A short time later, it was discovered crashed at the intersection of Leet and Kelvin Sts.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Carlile&#8217;s family said on a <a href=\"https:\/\/givealittle.co.nz\/cause\/helping-the-family-of-enoch-carlisle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Givealittle page <\/a>they were &#8220;suffering with the loss of a son, brother, uncle, dad, cousin&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We understand that he may have had fallings out with people, or done some stuff in his life that people didnt like. But this isn&#8217;t about him right now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is for the family that have to say goodbye to him, and make our lives a little easier in this hard time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police said in a statement today they continued to investigate the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who witnessed the crash, or have CCTV in the vicinity of Wellesley Avenue, Avenal Street or Kelvin Street, was asked to get in touch with police.<\/p>\n<p>Reports could be made online on 105.<\/p>\n<p>Click \u2018Make a report\u2019 and\u00a0use the reference number 260322\/6911.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young driver killed in a fatal crash while fleeing police in central Invercargill has been named. He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-400792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400792","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=400792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}