{"id":77846,"date":"2025-10-14T13:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/77846\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T13:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:14:12","slug":"sunlive-prompt-phone-call-helps-land-driver-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/77846\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Prompt phone call helps land driver in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is facing court after a quick-thinking member of the public phoned 111 about his manner of driving in the Galatea\/Murupara area, police said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Sunday, October 12, at around 6pm, police received the call reporting someone allegedly driving dangerously along Troutbeck Rd,\u201d Rotorua Area Commander Herby Ngawhika said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded and located the vehicle a short time after and it was pulled over on Kopuriki Rd.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a routine breath alcohol test was administered, to which the driver blew about three times the legal limit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice would like to thank the member of our community for their vigilance and prompt reporting of the alleged dangerous driving, which led to this driver being held to account,\u201d Ngawhika said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s extremely lucky that no one was hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A 69-year-old man is due to appear in Rotorua District Court on October 16 charged with driving with excess breath alcohol for the third or subsequent time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is facing court after a quick-thinking member of the public phoned 111 about his manner of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-77846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77846","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=77846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}