reckless driving<\/a> and driving with excess breath alcohol causing injury.<\/p>\nHe is yet to enter a plea.<\/p>\n
Curtis was not in the Auckland District Court on Thursday, as he is excused for medical reasons.<\/p>\n
Police prosecutor Karamvir Talwar requested Curtis’ bail conditions include not contacting the victim and not driving.<\/p>\n
Judge Ajit Swaran Singh granted the conditions, remanding Curtis on bail.<\/p>\n
The maximum sentence for the excess breath alcohol charge is five years in prison or a fine of $20,000 alongside a mandatory disqualification from driving for a at least 12 months.<\/p>\n
Driving recklessly carries a maximum sentence of three months imprisonment or a $4500 fine and disqualification for six months or more.<\/p>\n
Curtis released a statement on Wednesday ahead of his court date.<\/p>\n
“I made a devastating mistake, and I’ll have to live with the consequences and do what I can to address the harm caused,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I am deeply sorry. My thoughts are with the injured taxi driver and his family.”<\/p>\n
In a statement from last month, Curtis said he was deeply saddened by what happened.<\/p>\n
“My thoughts are with those who were hurt, and their families at this time.”<\/p>\n
Curtis had helped the injured driver after the crash, his statement said.<\/p>\n
Curtis has appeared in a number of movies both locally and overseas including Once Were Warriors and more recently James Cameron’s Avatar franchise.<\/p>\n
He teamed up with fellow actor Jason Momoa and director Taika Waititi to acquire the Auckland-based film studio Studio West in a bid to bring more jobs and Polynesian-led storytelling to New Zealand.<\/p>\n
Curtis is expected to reappear in Auckland District Court later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iconic New Zealand actor Cliff Curtis has missed his day in court, recovering from internal injuries after an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-631007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631007","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=631007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}