A 17-year-old youth has been charged after a police pursuit in the Hunter Valley yesterday.
\nPolice will be alleging in court that the young person was seen driving a PT Chrysler Cruiser through the Hunter Economic Zone, Pelaw Main, about 6.15pm (Wednesday 30 October 2019) at excessive speed.
\nPolice attempted to stop the vehicle, however, the driver failed to comply, and a pursuit was initiated.
\nThe vehicle continued onto Hospital Road, Kurri Kurri before tuning left onto a dirt track where it was met with dense bushland.
\nThe vehicle quickly reversed and crashed into two police vehicles \u2013 causing minor damage \u2013 before it sped away.
\nThe pursuit was terminated, and a description of the vehicle was broadcast via police radio.
\nThe Cruiser was found soon after in Hebburn Road, Pelaw Main and officers called for the vehicle to be seized.
\nWhile waiting for a tow truck, the 17-year-old alleged driver returned to the scene with a support person and spoke with police.
\nHe was arrested and taken to Cessnock Police Station where he was charged with Skys Law and drive manner dangerously.
\nHe was granted conditional bail and will appear in Kurri Kurri Local Court on Tuesday 26 November 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A 17-year-old youth has been charged after a police pursuit in the Hunter Valley yesterday. Police will be alleging in court that the young person was seen driving a PT Chrysler Cruiser through the Hunter Economic Zone, Pelaw Main, about 6.15pm (Wednesday 30 October 2019) at excessive speed. Police attempted to stop the vehicle, however, … Continue reading “Youth charged with Skys Law following police pursuit – Hunter Valley”<\/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-4060","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\/4060","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=4060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}