When Hamilton man Chapman Rangitaawa awoke to the sound of several police sirens, followed by “a big bang” in the early hours of Wednesday morning, his first thought was that he left the TV on.
As he went outside, Chapman found himself watching a live incident: “A good 10″ police cars surrounded a black Audi S8 with no number plates that had crashed through his neighbour’s fence on Peachgrove Rd, opposite Southwell School.
“I just heard all these sirens and it kept getting closer and louder ... Then I could hear all those cops yelling ‘Get out of the car, get out of the car!’ When I came outside to have a look, one police car was already driving away,” he says.
“I didn’t realise how bad the fence was until later that morning, I just saw the car - a nice, black Audi - had crashed into it. What a waste of a car ... It must have been a big shock for the neighbours. Lucky that it stopped where it did and they are all right.”