8 Aug 2016

Police hunt for car after double pursuit

8:32 am on 8 August 2016

A two-car police chase from west to south Auckland has ended with one car still at large and the other abandoned at a motorway offramp.

Police car at a check point in Mana, Wellington.

Photo: RNZ / Alexander Robertson

Police say the cars, one of which failed to stop for officers hours earlier, were seen driving erratically on the Northwestern Motorway about 5am today.

One pursuit was abandoned due to excessive speed and is still the subject of a police search.

The second car which had been heading towards the Hamilton Expressway was stopped by road spikes, police say, and its occupants arrested.

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