\u201cThe vehicle wasn\u2019t pursued, but JTOC cameras have monitored the vehicle\u2019s movements and the Eagle [helicopter] also got overhead.\u201d <\/p>\n
The vehicle was successfully spiked at the Takanini motorway off-ramp and continued driving to an address in the area.<\/p>\n
Police located and arrested a 27-year-old man at the property, who was found to be allegedly more than double the legal breath alcohol limit. <\/p>\n
A few hours later, a Nissan was detected being driven at 146km\/h near Penrose.<\/p>\n
The driver failed to stop for police and allegedly continued speeding south, tracked again by motorway cameras and the Eagle helicopter, where he got off the motorway at Redoubt Rd.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Nissan came round a corner at speed, losing control and colliding with a parked ute causing extensive damage to both vehicles,\u201d said Russell.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived at the scene, the 18-year-old driver from Flat Bush attempted to flee on foot and was arrested.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old has been charged with driving with excess breath alcohol, dangerous driving, driving contrary to a zero-alcohol licence and failing to remain.<\/p>\n
The 18-year-old has been charged with dangerous driving, exceeding 100km\/h posted speed limit, failing to stop and possession of cannabis.<\/p>\n
Both were due to appear in the Manukau District Court.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a great result from our night shift team, and fortunately we are not having to announce a law-abiding motorist hasn\u2019t been seriously hurt or killed on the road overnight,\u201d said Russell. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe vehicle wasn\u2019t pursued, but JTOC cameras have monitored the vehicle\u2019s movements and the Eagle [helicopter] also got…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20490,74,7818,12642,3952,1558,96439,1349,15211,4189,60049,305,42,20557,78,3945,43,90,6507,171,20489,61,40,38,41,39,1237],"class_list":["post-517895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-146kmh","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-appear","tag-aucklands","tag-been","tag-clocked","tag-court","tag-drivers","tag-driving","tag-excessive","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-hitting","tag-in","tag-motorway","tag-news","tag-on","tag-overnight","tag-southern","tag-speeds","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517895","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=517895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}