{"id":465288,"date":"2026-06-07T11:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T11:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/465288\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T11:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T11:13:09","slug":"police-cars-rammed-after-fleeing-car-spiked-catches-fire-in-hawkes-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/465288\/","title":{"rendered":"Police cars rammed after fleeing car spiked, catches fire in Hawke\u2019s Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Police followed the vehicle from a distance before blocking it on Flaxmere Ave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Wilkin said the driver made a final \u201cdesperate bid\u201d to escape, ramming two police patrol cars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">No one was injured, though the police cars were damaged, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">A 29-year-old man and a 28-year-old woman were arrested \u201cwithout incident\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Police said the pair had existing warrants for their arrest on unrelated matters and would face additional charges in relation to tonight\u2019s incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Cordons remain in place while police examine the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police followed the vehicle from a distance before blocking it on Flaxmere Ave. Wilkin said the driver made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1561,3944,6799,12024,4189,19555,2079,15037,1976,78,809,111,43,139,69,23421,2847,675,43043,1314,20789,43970,43973,1324,1961,13797,6845,3608,6123],"class_list":["post-465288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-bay","tag-car","tag-cars","tag-catches","tag-driving","tag-evening","tag-fire","tag-fleeing","tag-hawkes","tag-in","tag-keep","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-officers","tag-only","tag-police","tag-rammed","tag-road","tag-smoking","tag-spiked","tag-spikes","tag-stop","tag-this","tag-used","tag-vehicle","tag-were","tag-while"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465288","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=465288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}