{"id":619170,"date":"2026-10-03T05:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T05:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/619170\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T05:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T05:56:11","slug":"driver-on-the-run-after-major-damage-to-multiple-parked-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/619170\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver on the run after major damage to multiple parked cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The driver of a red Volkswagen remains at large after crashing into several parked cars in Dunedin.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokeswoman said\u00a0emergency services were alerted about 12.40am on Saturday after\u00a0the driver of the\u00a0vehicle crashed into a parked car in Maitland St, before attempting to leave and hitting a number of other parked cars.<\/p>\n<p> <img alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/maitland-street-031026-3-pixellate-jpg.webp\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2634\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"narrow-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/><img alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/maitland-street-031026-3-pixellate-jpg.webp\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2634\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"wider-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/>A badly damaged Toyota Aqua, in Maitland St, after it was hit by another car on Saturday morning. Photo: Gerard O&#8217;Brien <\/p>\n<p>The driver and a passenger then fled on foot.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a police dog unit attempt to track the occupants, they could not be found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInquiries are ongoing to locate them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>john.lewis@odt.co.nz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driver of a red Volkswagen remains at large after crashing into several parked cars in Dunedin. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-619170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619170","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=619170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}