{"id":491466,"date":"2026-06-23T11:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/491466\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:54:10","slug":"police-nab-alleged-speedster-after-dangerous-pursuit-through-auckland-suburbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/491466\/","title":{"rendered":"Police nab alleged speedster after dangerous pursuit through Auckland suburbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOn several occasions, the vehicle has been observed on the wrong side of the road and narrowly missing other vehicles and pedestrians,\u201d Wickman said.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The Subaru continued west and exited the  North-Western Motorway at Te Atat\u016b Rd, where the vehicle stopped because of the damage it had sustained. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The Subaru continued west and exited the  North-Western Motorway at Te Atat\u016b Rd, where the vehicle stopped because of the damage it had sustained. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe appalling behaviour continued on to the North-Western Motorway, where the Subaru has been involved in minor collisions with several vehicles on the Newton Rd on-ramp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">Having been damaged by these collisions, the vehicle was finally brought to a stop after exiting the motorway at Te Atat\u016b Rd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">A 54-year-old man has been taken into custody and charges will be laid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">Wickman said the outcome could have been far worse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s fortunate that the damage is only to vehicles, and no one has been seriously injured as a result of this reckless behaviour.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOn several occasions, the vehicle has been observed on the wrong side of the road and narrowly missing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2840,74,1554,7818,11924,51,1558,8452,15037,71,20557,73689,111,43,139,69,193,675,5204,85522,13109,17880,21047,210,6861],"class_list":["post-491466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-across","tag-after","tag-alleged","tag-allegedly","tag-arrested","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-dangerous","tag-fleeing","tag-from","tag-hitting","tag-nab","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-other","tag-police","tag-process","tag-pursuit","tag-several","tag-speedster","tag-suburbs","tag-through","tag-vehicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491466","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=491466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}