One person has been charged as police continue to search for an offender who fled a checkpoint in Hastings, starting a police pursuit through busy city streets in morning rush-hour traffic.
A police spokesperson said one person has been charged with failing to stop for police as they attempted to stop a vehicle at a checkpoint in Frimley, which then fled down Frederick St shortly after 8.20am on Monday.
It fled across Karamu Rd and down Grove Rd, past Splash Planet, before coming to a stop on Windsor Ave.
A Hawke's Bay Today reporter at the scene said an abandoned vehicle on the corner of Windsor Ave and Louie St, surrounded by police cars, was smoking and a possible fire appeared to have been extinguished.
Two fire engines were at the scene.
