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JOHN BISSET\/Things<\/p>\n Police at Timaru station on Sunday morning near a car that was abandoned by a driver later charged with failing to stop and dangerous driving.<\/p>\n A 44-year-old driver who failed to stop for police south of St Andrews, south Canterbury, then drove to Timaru, where his vehicle was hit, before abandoning it in the CBD , has been charged with failure to stop and dangerous. to drive. <\/p>\n Police were alerted to the dangerous driver after receiving a report of a vehicle speeding on the Waimate Freeway just after 10am on Sunday, a police spokesman said.<\/p>\n “The vehicle was located a short time later and the driver failed to stop for police in south St Andrews,” they said.<\/p>\n “Vehicle hit south of Timaru.”<\/p>\n READ MORE: The vehicle was then found abandoned in Station St, after the driver crashed into a building, at around 10.20am.<\/p>\n The driver was arrested nearby about 30 minutes later, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n No one was injured in the incident, they said.<\/p>\n
* One person seriously injured and one police officer hospitalized in two separate assaults in Porirua overnight
* A loaded gun was found at the scene of the robbery in the Timaru CBD
* Speeding and drinking drivers keep Timaru police busy
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