Police were involved in a high-speed pursuit which ended in a car over a bank in Duneidn yesterday.
The pursuit started after the driver of the Mazda 323 station wagon ignored a request to stop in Andersons Bay Rd shortly after 6am.
The car reached speeds of up to 90kmh during the pursuit, Senior Sergeant Craig Brown, of Dunedin, said.
Police pursued the vehicle and its four occupants along Cavell St, Tomahawk Rd and Highcliff Rd before the car "bellied over a bank" at the intersection with Centre Rd, Snr Sgt Brown said.
Two of the occupants remained at the scene, while two others, including the driver, "decamped".
One of the passengers, a 24-year-old with an outstanding warrant, was apprehended after he returned to the vehicle to retrieve his cellphone.
An 18-year-old woman was arrested and charged with unlawful interference.
She was granted bail.
Police were still looking for the driver, but were pursuing "positive lines of inquiry".
The vehicle was towed away.
• Two teenagers were arrested on weapons and assault charges after an incident in Brockville on Tuesday night.
A 16-year-old girl arrived at a Brockville address at 5.15pm brandishing a tyre iron, and both she and a 17-year-old man at the address, who was wielding a spade, were arrested, Snr Sgt Brown said.
The girl will appear in the Dunedin Youth Court and the man in the Dunedin District Court.
• An 18-year-old unemployed woman was arrested and charged with disorderly behaviour after an incident in North Dunedin early yesterday.
Police were called twice to a Gladstone Rd address after reports the woman was "yelling and screaming out on the street", Snr Sgt Brown said.
After an initial warning, the woman was arrested at 1.20am for continuing to yell abuse.
• Police would like to speak to the driver of a vehicle that smashed into a mailbox and fence after crashing through an intersection at Nairn St and Beresford St on Tuesday night.
Police had spoken to the owner of the vehicle, a 20-year-old woman, but were yet to determine who was driving the vehicle at the time of the accident.
