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Police are still searching for a man who drove over his female companion while evading arrest yesterday.
The woman was a passenger in the van, which arrived at an address in the North Shore suburb of Northcote about 2.30pm yesterday to find a police search under way.
She got out of the vehicle and was approaching the house when she saw police and fled back to the van.
A police officer chased the woman, and while in the process of apprehending her, they struggled and the woman fell onto the footpath.
Meanwhile, the van driver, in an attempt to escape from police, drove up onto the footpath and across the woman's body.
He then sped from the scene.
The woman was hospitalised with non-life threatening injuries and was in a stable condition this morning, a police spokesman said.
Police are searching for the driver and his vehicle in the wider Auckland region.
The van was described as a light coloured either cream or white Toyota, with the registration number EHE 864.
- NZPA
