80 M.P. H. CHASE BY POLICE

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29269, 29 July 1960, Page 10

80 M.P. H. CHASE BY POLICE

Girl Caught In Converted Car (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, July 28. A 16-year-old girl In a converted car led two police cars on an 80-mpe-an-hour chase through suburban Auckland just after midnight last night. At one stage, a youth who was a passenger in the converted car dived out into the path of a pursuing police car which had ,to swerve violently to avoid him. Police in a patrol car at Avondale first noticed a car bearing two sets of number plates and followed it until it stopped at traffic lights. One policeman got out and told the girl driver to pull into the kerb. Another girl and two youths were also in the car. As the lights turned green, the converted car roared off and the chase began through the Mount Roskill and Sandringham districts. The youth dived put of the car from a rear door when the car slowed at a corner and the police car swerved, slowed and stopped momentarily while a policeman chased the youth and caught him. The other policeman continued the pursuit while radioing to police headquarters for help. Another police car joined the hunt. At one stage the girl driver almost forced the first police car off the road while it was trying to overtake. Finally, after a half-hour chase, the car was stopped when the second police car blocked its way in Columbia road, Sandringham.