{"id":503943,"date":"2026-07-01T04:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/503943\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T04:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:58:10","slug":"oncoming-cars-swerve-as-driver-travels-brakes-on-wrong-side-of-rural-pukekohe-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/503943\/","title":{"rendered":"Oncoming cars swerve as driver travels, brakes on wrong side of rural Pukekohe road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Glenn Parsonage, who captured the moment on his dashcam, told the Herald it was \u201cpointless and dangerous\u201d, and the driver turned off soon after the overtake anyway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBasically they came up on the tractor, which was already on this stretch of road, they weren\u2019t behind it for more than 10 seconds before they decided to overtake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAs it turned out the white car turned up Ray Wright Rd not even 100m away, the tractor drove straight on. Pointless and dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The driver turned down Ray Wright Rd just 100m after they overtook.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The driver turned down Ray Wright Rd just 100m after they overtook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Counties Manukau road policing team leader Senior Sergeant Chris Peet said the  driving was concerning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cDriving in an unsafe manner, such as this, poses serious safety risks to the driver as well as other road users.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice encourage the owner of this footage to contact us so we can identify the driver and take appropriate action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Parsonage \u2013 a former truck driver \u2013 said the action \u201cdoesn\u2019t surprise him\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cTo be honest, nothing surprises me on the roads. Having a background in trucking, I\u2019ve seen a lot of crazy stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">In February, a truck driver died after a crash involving a truck and trailer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/truck-and-trailer-crash-closes-south-auckland-road-delays-expected\/KX4QEUQYONFSHAT7PODGGCSYMU\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/truck-and-trailer-crash-closes-south-auckland-road-delays-expected\/KX4QEUQYONFSHAT7PODGGCSYMU\/\">on nearby Logan Rd, Buckland.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glenn Parsonage, who captured the moment on his dashcam, told the Herald it was \u201cpointless and dangerous\u201d, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[806,48052,51,1558,20493,9260,6799,651,40248,19552,42,24308,19475,53399,43,1118,90,33263,51252,36262,1314,3175,6102,392,74943,40,38,41,39,74932,29687,2983,54949,6845,25152],"class_list":["post-503943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-as","tag-attempts","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-brakes","tag-captured","tag-cars","tag-close","tag-dashcam","tag-driver","tag-headlines","tag-headon","tag-minutes","tag-misses","tag-news","tag-of","tag-on","tag-oncoming","tag-pass","tag-pukekohe","tag-road","tag-rural","tag-side","tag-space","tag-swerve","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-towing","tag-tractor","tag-trailer","tag-travels","tag-vehicle","tag-wrong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503943","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=503943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}