A man has been charged after police observed vehicle travelling at nearly twice K\u0101piti Expressway’s 110km\/h speed limit last night \u2013 eventually crashing into a wire barrier.<\/p>\n
Just before 8.25pm, police spotted a motorist speeding south on State Highway 1 Waikanae on the K\u0101piti Coast.<\/p>\n
The driver failed to stop for police but was not pursued due to the manner of driving. <\/p>\n
Within several minutes, the vehicle was seen by traffic cameras leaving the Expressway at Waikanae and getting back on heading northbound \u2013 before crashing into a wire barrier near the Ngarara Bridge. <\/p>\n
The driver was found by police shortly afterwards and was assessed by ambulance staff.<\/p>\n
Incredibly, police noted he was uninjured.<\/p>\n
“The road was closed for some time while the scene was assessed and cleared, as debris from the crashed vehicle was spread across all lanes.”<\/p>\n
A 35-year-old man is due to appear in the Porirua District Court on October 20 charged with failing to stop for police, reckless driving, and driving while disqualified.<\/p>\n
Inspector Ren\u00e9e Perkins said the reported manner of driving was very concerning, and thankfully not too common. <\/p>\n
“It\u2019s a wonder the driver or any other road users were not injured or worse given the manner of driving,” Perkins said. <\/p>\n
“Our road policing team are highly visible, doing a great job cracking down on speed and this type of reckless driving behaviour.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged after police observed vehicle travelling at nearly twice K\u0101piti Expressway’s 110km\/h speed limit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,111,43,139,69,52],"class_list":["post-631321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631321","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=631321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}