{"id":445668,"date":"2026-05-26T07:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/445668\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T07:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:52:09","slug":"two-injured-after-teen-allegedly-rams-three-police-cars-in-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/445668\/","title":{"rendered":"Two injured after teen allegedly rams three police cars in Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Two people have been injured after a teenager allegedly rammed three police cars with a stolen vehicle in Canterbury this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police were first alerted to the vehicle in the Bishopdale area of Christchurch around 2pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Senior Sergeant Stephen McDaniel said police had signalled the vehicle to stop, however it failed to do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Due to concerns about the manner of driving, road spikes were deployed in an attempt to safely bring the vehicle to a stop,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;The vehicle was eventually successfully blocked on Main South Rd \/ State Highway 1 at Rakaia Bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;During the incident, the driver rammed three police vehicles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Two people sustained minor injuries, McDaniel said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The driver was taken into custody without incident shortly after 3pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The bridge was closed while emergency services worked at the scene, reopening shortly before 4pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been injured after a teenager allegedly rammed three police cars with a stolen vehicle in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[158,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-445668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-crime-and-justice","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\/445668","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=445668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}