Chased car hits house
A high speed car chase through Christchurch ended last evening with a car crashing into a bedroom where two children were sleeping. Traffic Sergeant M. S. Mclntosh said that np-one was injured in the crash) The chase started when a speeding car occupied by two women refused to stop in Gloucester Street at 10.57 p.m. Two traffic patrol cars chased the car along Woodham Road, Linwood Avenue,
: Avonside Drive, Abberley I Crescent, and St Albans ■ Street. The chase ended i when the car drove up a : driveway in St Albans Street and crashed into the side of . a house. • The car smashed through : the wall of a bedroom, wak- ■ ing two children, but not > injuring them. The room was i extensively damaged. ’ Sergeant Mclntosh said : that the woman driving the car was being detained late , last evening.
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Press, 9 March 1982, Page 6
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