{"id":50839,"date":"2025-09-29T21:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/50839\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:53:08","slug":"fleeing-teens-drive-wrong-way-on-aucklands-southern-motorway-travel-40km-on-spiked-tyres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/50839\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleeing teens drive wrong way on Auckland\u2019s Southern Motorway, travel 40km on spiked tyres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">The group of teens continued south on Te Irirangi Dr, travelling at speed on the wrong side of the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cDespite not being pursued, the vehicle entered State Highway 1 heading south and once it reached Drury it has driven the wrong way down the motorway for more than four kilometres,\u201d Albrey said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">The car was eventually spiked at Bombay, but even this did not stop the teens, who drove a further 40km before finally coming to a standstill  in Ohinewai, where six people were taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt is incredibly fortunate no one was seriously injured as a result of this incident,\u201d Albrey said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">Five youths, aged between 13-16, have been referred to Youth Aid Services, while a 16-year-old will appear in the Manukau Youth Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The group of teens continued south on Te Irirangi Dr, travelling at speed on the wrong side of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43969,74,11924,3952,1558,6097,4480,4189,33264,15037,43972,305,15167,3945,20494,111,43,139,69,90,675,171,43970,43973,672,165,274,43971,6845,14047,25152],"class_list":["post-50839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-40km","tag-after","tag-arrested","tag-aucklands","tag-been","tag-down","tag-drive","tag-driving","tag-evade","tag-fleeing","tag-footpath","tag-have","tag-laid","tag-motorway","tag-mounting","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-police","tag-southern","tag-spiked","tag-spikes","tag-teens","tag-their","tag-travel","tag-tyres","tag-vehicle","tag-way","tag-wrong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50839","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=50839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}