<\/b>A woman has been charged after a police pursuit in the Hunter Valley during which a police vehicle was allegedly rammed.<\/p>\n
About 4.40pm yesterday (Friday 26 February 2016), police were patrolling Leggetts Drive, Pelaw Main, when they detected a Hyundai Elantra with expired registration travelling north.<\/p>\n
Police turned around and tried to pull the vehicle over, but it continued driving and a pursuit was initiated.<\/p>\n
The pursuit continued through Kurri Kurri, before the vehicle turned into a bush track off Embelton Road. The vehicle came to a stop due to the road being blocked by logs.<\/p>\n
Police attempted to open the driver\u2019s door, at which time the driver allegedly reversed the vehicle into the front of the highway patrol car.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old female driver was then removed from the vehicle and arrested. When she was searched police allegedly located a small amount of cannabis in her pocket.<\/p>\n
Inquiries also revealed she is disqualified from driving until 2017.<\/p>\n
The woman was taken to Kurri Kurri Hospital where blood and urine sample were obtained.<\/p>\n
She was then taken to Maitland Police Station where she was charged with drive while disqualified, drive unregistered\/uninsured vehicle, drive under the influence of alcohol\/drug, possess prohibited drug, drive at a speed\/manner dangerous, take and drive conveyance without consent of owner, exceed speed by over 45km\/h and destroy or damage property.<\/p>\n
She was granted conditional bail to appear at Maitland Local Court on 24 March 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A woman has been charged after a police pursuit in the Hunter Valley during which a police vehicle was allegedly rammed. About 4.40pm yesterday (Friday 26 February 2016), police were patrolling Leggetts Drive, Pelaw Main, when they detected a Hyundai Elantra with expired registration travelling north. Police turned around and tried to pull the vehicle … Continue reading “Woman charged following pursuit – Kurri Kurri”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio16","category-tcrn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}