A teenager has been arrested after a sports car performing a loss of traction sped away from police and crashed into an unoccupied townhouse.
A police unit patrolling in Highland Park, Auckland observed a Toyota sports car enter Pakuranga Road from a service station just after midnight. The vehicle performed a loss of traction in front of the unit and sped off. Police attempted to signal the vehicle to stop, but it fled at speed up Angelo Avenue.
Given the vehicle’s manner of driving and speed, it was not pursued. Subsequent checks identified that the vehicle’s registration plates did not match.
The patrol carried out enquiries in the area and located the vehicle after it crashed on Finnerty Avenue. It had travelled through a fence and a ranch slider door into a newly built and unoccupied townhouse.
The 17-year-old male driver was located uninjured at the scene and was arrested. No one was inside the property at the time of the crash.
