A man has been arrested after allegedly attempting to flee police on the Southern Motorway near Drury this afternoon \u2013 on foot.<\/p>\n
Around 4pm on Monday, police said they were called following a report of a black Audi vehicle driving erratically on State Highway 2 near Mangat\u0101whiri. <\/p>\n
Inspector Peter Raynes said Highway Patrol officers spotted the Audi travelling north on SH1 near Bombay.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe driver failed to stop for police and has made contact with one of the patrol vehicles, but hasn\u2019t caused any extensive damage,\u201d Raynes said.<\/p>\n
The vehicle was spiked and three of its tyres were deflated.<\/p>\n
Police continued to monitor the vehicle travelling north at slow speed on SH1.<\/p>\n
“In order to keep other northbound motorists safe, a unit was carrying out a rolling block of traffic to maintain a safe distance,” Raynes said.<\/p>\n
The police Eagle helicopter was deployed overhead and “continued to monitor the driver\u2019s erratic behaviour, speeding up and slowing down, and driving across both lanes”.<\/p>\n
The driver eventually stopped the vehicle and fled on foot, Raynes said, crossing to the other side of the Southern Motorway.<\/p>\n
He was arrested on the roadside following a short pursuit on southbound lanes. <\/p>\n
The man was now in police custody and charges were to be confirmed. <\/p>\n
Police thanked motorists for their cooperation with the disruption to their travel this afternoon.<\/p>\n
“Further enquiries are to be made but given the driver\u2019s behaviour police suspect impairment may be a factor, and I applaud the member of the public for reporting the poor driving behaviour,” Raynes said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested after allegedly attempting to flee police on the Southern Motorway near Drury this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-614356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614356","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=614356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}