{"id":607343,"date":"2026-09-21T17:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/607343\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T17:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:38:11","slug":"police-seek-witnesses-to-alleged-dangerous-driving-on-waikato-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/607343\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seek witnesses to alleged dangerous driving on Waikato Expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">Senior Constable Chris Polglase said quick reports from members of the public may have prevented a potentially tragic outcome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe are grateful to those people who did the right thing and stopped their vehicles to make a call to us, so we were able to quickly take action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHowever, we still want to hear from anyone who might have witnessed this vehicle being driven on the Expressway during this incident, or who might have dashcam footage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">Anyone with information can contact Police through the 105 service, quoting reference number 260921\/0133.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior Constable Chris Polglase said quick reports from members of the public may have prevented a potentially tragic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1554,7818,33846,8452,19552,4189,19555,38121,111,43,139,69,90,193,675,11925,40249,165232,299224,1961,61,21419,6861,1524,28251],"class_list":["post-607343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-alleged","tag-allegedly","tag-along","tag-dangerous","tag-driver","tag-driving","tag-evening","tag-expressway","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-other","tag-police","tag-seek","tag-seeking","tag-sped","tag-swerved","tag-this","tag-to","tag-towards","tag-vehicles","tag-waikato","tag-witnesses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607343","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=607343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}