{"id":376067,"date":"2025-08-26T22:39:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T22:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/376067\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T22:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T22:39:16","slug":"police-car-smashed-in-glasgow-high-speed-stolen-motor-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/376067\/","title":{"rendered":"Police car smashed in Glasgow high speed stolen motor chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Officers were alerted to the stolen vehicle at around 12.30pm today, Tuesday, August 26, within the Glasgow area.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Police pursued the nicked wheels in a high speed chase, where the pinched car collided with an unmarked police motor in Old Gartloch Road, Gartcosh.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The stolen car sped away from the cops, before it was found in the Bothwell area and seized.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A 38-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the theft and road traffic offences.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Fortunately, no one was injured.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Police say that their enquiries are ongoing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/news\/25418038.mercy-crews-race-scene-car-crash\/?rel=cl_mra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercy crews race to scene of car crash<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/news\/25417204.police-accused-insulting-taxpayers-celtic-fans-title-party-policing-costs\/?rel=cl_lsa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Police accused of &#8216;insulting taxpayers&#8217; over Celtic fans&#8217; title party policing costs<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/news\/25418427.betrayed-police-emma-caldwells-family-demand-inquiry-without-delay\/?rel=cl_lsa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Betrayed by police\u2019: Emma Caldwell\u2019s family demand inquiry without delay<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/topics\/police-scotland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Police Scotland<\/a> spokesperson said: &#8220;Around 12.30pm on Tuesday, 26 August, 2025 police received information of a stolen car within the Glasgow area.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;A pursuit ensued and the car collided with an unmarked police car in Old Gartloch Road, Gartcosh.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The stolen car then made off and was traced in the Bothwell area where it was seized.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;A 38-year-old man was arrested in connection with the theft of a vehicle and various road traffic offences.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;No-one was injured.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Enquires are ongoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers were alerted to the stolen vehicle at around 12.30pm today, Tuesday, August 26, within the Glasgow area.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-376067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115097472992462455","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}