A woman will face court following an alleged pursuit in Swansea this afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 12.10pm (Tuesday 30 September 2025), police were patrolling M1 Motorway, Somersby, when they attempted to stop a Volkswagen sedan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the driver allegedly failed to stop as directed, a pursuit was initiated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pursuit continued to the Tuggerah Interchange where police abandoned the pursuit, and the vehicle continued to proceed through Doyalson, Lake Munmorah, Moone, Pinny Beach into Swansea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The sedan then allegedly crashed into a vehicle while making a turn onto Lake Road before continuing to travel north on the Pacific Highway. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police attempted to deploy road spikes just north of the Swansea Bridge, however, the vehicle has swerved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A short time later, road spikes were deployed for a second time in Pelican, which the vehicle avoided before continuing to travel towards Belmont.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following inquiries, police located the vehicle abandoned on Moorilla Close, Windale, and arrested five people, including the driver, near the vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The alleged driver \u2013 a 19-year-old woman \u2013 was taken to Belmont Police Station where she was charged with learner exceed speed by more than 45km\/h estimated, drive with two passenger seatbelt\/restraint not properly fastened, part of body outside window\/door (driver permit passenger), drive recklessly\/furiously or speed\/manner dangerous, and not comply with direction to stop\/not move vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was refused bail to appear before Bail Division Court 2 tomorrow (Wednesday 1 October 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police will allege in court a 10-month-old baby was also in the vehicle at the time of the arrests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The four other passengers have since been released without charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A woman will face court following an alleged pursuit in Swansea this afternoon. About 12.10pm (Tuesday 30 September 2025), police were patrolling M1 Motorway, Somersby, when they attempted to stop a Volkswagen sedan. When the driver allegedly failed to stop as directed, a pursuit was initiated. The pursuit continued to the Tuggerah Interchange where police abandoned the … Continue reading “Woman charged following alleged pursuit \u2013 Swansea”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35172,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35171\/revisions\/35172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}