The police four-wheel-drive after it was rammed during an attempt to stop a fleeing driver on Inland Road.
Two men involved in separate police pursuits on the same day in Northland have been remanded in custody after appearing in court.
A 45-year-old man, from Kenana near Mangonui, who police claim was the driver of a Toyota Hilux ute that damaged three vehicles when officers tried to stop it
on the Karikari Peninsula on Thursday afternoon, was remanded in custody.
Bail was opposed by the police, and no application was made, when Murray Andrew Thomas made a very brief appearance before the Kaitaia JP Court yesterday.
Thomas, whose heavily tattooed body was naked from the waist up, was remanded until February 7 without plea on charges of reckless driving causing injury, failing to ascertain injury, failing to stop, possession of a cannabis utensil, possession of an offensive weapon, a knife, and two of assault with a weapon, his vehicle.
Police allege Thomas was the driver of a ute that twice rammed a car on the bridge on Inland Rd, metres from the State Highway 10 intersection, in an attempt to get across the bridge, where police had laid spikes during a pursuit.
