A Dunedin driver who blasted through an orange traffic light after tailgating an undercover\u00a0police car told officers he was \u201crunning late\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sergeant Matt Lee, of Dunedin, said police were patrolling the North Dunedin area in an unmarked patrol car\u00a0on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While driving in Anzac Ave, about 3.30pm, a vehicle began tailgating the patrol car.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The patrol car slowed down for an orange traffic light at the intersection with\u00a0Frederick St.<\/p>\n
However, the other vehicle overtook it and shot\u00a0through the intersection, Sgt Lee said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The vehicle was stopped by police.<\/p>\n
Behind the wheel was a 45-year-old man, who told police he was \u201crunning late\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The man\u00a0passed a breath\u00a0screening test and was issued infringement notices for his driving offences, Sgt Lee said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
About an hour later,\u00a0police also responded to a vehicle collision in Richardson St.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A 57-year-old man was attempting to complete a u-turn, but he failed to see another vehicle coming up from behind which pulled out in front of him.<\/p>\n
It struck the driver\u2019s side of the man\u2019s vehicle, \u201ccausing it to spin and crash into a parked vehicle on the other side of the road\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There was \u201csignificant damage\u201d to all three vehicles and at least one needed to be towed from the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A decision on enforcement action was pending, Sgt Lee said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
tim.scott@odt.co.nz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dunedin driver who blasted through an orange traffic light after tailgating an undercover\u00a0police car told officers he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-559305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559305","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=559305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}