Police are hunting an offender who rammed a stolen vehicle into a patrol car in a pursuit late last night in Wellington.
Inspector Terry Van Dillen said a Toyota Hilux was stolen from an property in Highbury last night.
A patrolling police officer pursued the vehicle after seeing it drive past on a motorway at about 11:30pm.
He chased it to the Newlands off-ramp, where the fleeing driver stopped and reserved the Hilux into his patrol car, police said.
Inspector Terry Van Dillen said the officer, a frontline sergeant, was lucky to escape injury in the incident.
