{"id":620166,"date":"2026-10-04T08:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T08:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/620166\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T08:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T08:32:11","slug":"hazardous-materials-found-in-car-after-fleeing-driver-stopped-in-epsom-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/620166\/","title":{"rendered":"Hazardous materials found in car after fleeing driver stopped in Epsom, Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The fleeing driver travelled from Karaka to Epsom. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n

A driver who fled police for about 30km across Auckland was arrested after hazardous materials were found in their car.<\/p>\n

Cordons are now in place in Epsom as police and fire crews work at the scene.<\/p>\n

\n Police said the vehicle failed to pull over in Karaka about 5pm and continued
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Officers used road spikes near Market Rd in Epsom, where the car eventually stopped close to the intersection with Great South Road.<\/p>\n

The driver was arrested, and a search of the car uncovered a number of hazardous materials, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[128613,1443,2840,74,11924,51,3944,19552,26221,7813,15037,1874,139158,78,397,111,43,139,69,675,14649,165,3608],"class_list":["post-620166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-30km","tag-about","tag-across","tag-after","tag-arrested","tag-auckland","tag-car","tag-driver","tag-epsom","tag-fled","tag-fleeing","tag-found","tag-hazardous","tag-in","tag-materials","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-stopped","tag-their","tag-were"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620166","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=620166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}