{"id":495772,"date":"2026-06-26T01:05:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/495772\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T01:05:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:05:29","slug":"driver-charged-after-allegedly-ramming-police-car-in-west-auckland-before-chase-across-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/495772\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver charged after allegedly ramming police car in West Auckland before chase across city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe Mazda has then reversed into the front of the patrol vehicle before taking off and heading at speed back towards the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Mowat said the vehicle continued south along State Highway 1, despite police signalling for it to stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe vehicle was then spiked after exiting at Drury, before coming to a stop near Young Crescent and the driver was quickly taken into custody without incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s incredibly lucky that the only damage was to a vehicle and no one was hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">A 21-year-old man has been charged with failing to stop, reckless driving and failing to comply with prohibition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">He was set to appear in Auckland District Court today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Mazda has then reversed into the front of the patrol vehicle before taking off and heading at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2840,74,7818,51,1558,9218,3944,13239,9436,2199,19552,15037,78,3945,111,43,139,69,675,43043,247527,3807],"class_list":["post-495772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-across","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-before","tag-car","tag-charged","tag-chase","tag-city","tag-driver","tag-fleeing","tag-in","tag-motorway","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-rammed","tag-ramming","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495772","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=495772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}