{"id":579602,"date":"2026-08-25T07:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/579602\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T07:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:06:09","slug":"watch-car-hits-speeds-of-110km-h-going-wrong-way-on-motorway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/579602\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Car hits speeds of 110km\/h going wrong way on motorway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Footage has emerged of a vehicle speeding down the wrong side of a Canterbury motorway.  <\/p>\n<p>Police said officers were alerted to the vehicle on Christchurch&#8217;s southern motorway at around 8.50am on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A video of the car, shared to the Christchurch Dash Cams Facebook group, was recorded by a motorist said to be driving from Rolleston towards Christchurch. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After passing Prebbleton, I came across this vehicle driving on the right-hand side and causing quite a few problems for other drivers,&#8221; they said. <\/p>\n<p>The witness believed the vehicle was travelling at around 110km\/h. <\/p>\n<p>Officers were unable to find the vehicle, and those who saw it were unable to give a registration number. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The vehicle had been seen correcting to the right side of the road,&#8221; police said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Footage has emerged of a vehicle speeding down the wrong side of a Canterbury motorway. Police said officers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[138,158,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-579602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579602","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=579602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}