{"id":621660,"date":"2026-10-05T21:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621660\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T21:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:46:09","slug":"wrong-way-driver-over-three-times-limit-nearly-hits-dunedin-police-patrol-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621660\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong-way driver over three times limit nearly hits Dunedin police patrol car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An allegedly drunk driver was arrested in Dunedin after nearly crashing into a police car\u00a0while travelling on the wrong side of the road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old woman was heading into the Octagon on Sunday at 3.30am when she almost collided with police, Senior Sergeant Iain Notman, of Dunedin, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers immediately stopped the woman and had her undergo breath testing procedures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She recorded a breath alcohol level of 805mcgs \u2014\u00a0over three times the legal limit of 250mcgs, Snr Sgt Notman said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The woman\u2019s licence was suspended for 28 days and she was summoned to appear in Dunedin District Court at a later day for excess breath alcohol.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>laine.priestley@odt.co.nz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An allegedly drunk driver was arrested in Dunedin after nearly crashing into a police car\u00a0while travelling on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-621660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621660","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=621660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}