{"id":620730,"date":"2026-10-04T22:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T22:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/620730\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T22:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T22:58:09","slug":"stolen-vehicle-spiked-after-dangerous-driving-through-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/620730\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolen vehicle spiked after dangerous driving through Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 19 year old man has been arrested after a stolen vehicle was driven dangerously through Christchurch early this morning.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson told ChrisLynchMedia.com officers received a report of the stolen vehicle on Moorhouse Avenue about 1.45am.<\/p>\n<p>Police signalled for the driver to stop, but the vehicle fled.<\/p>\n<p>Officers observed the vehicle from a distance before spiking it in an attempt to bring it to a safe stop.<\/p>\n<p>A short pursuit was initiated but abandoned because of the manner of driving.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said the vehicle was at times driven dangerously on the wrong side of the road.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle later came to a stop on Ferry Road and one person was taken into custody without incident.<\/p>\n<p>The 19 year old man was charged with dangerous driving, possessing instruments to steal vehicles, failing to stop and possessing cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>He is due to appear in Christchurch District Court on 9 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 19 year old man has been arrested after a stolen vehicle was driven dangerously through Christchurch early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[373,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-620730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-featured","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620730","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=620730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}