{"id":397516,"date":"2025-09-04T14:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/397516\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T14:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:59:15","slug":"fishponds-police-chase-ends-with-recovery-of-stolen-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/397516\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishponds police chase ends with recovery of stolen vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1_POLICE-LIGHTS-GENERICjp.jpg\" alt=\"The man has now been identified\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Generic image(Image: Western Mail)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A man has been charged with multiple driving offences after a police pursuit through Bristol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Bryan Smith, aged 47 and of no fixed address, was arrested on Tuesday, September 2 after the chase ended in Ledbury Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">He was due to appear at Bristol Magistrates&#8217; Court on Thursday, September 4 after the Crown Prosecution Service authorised charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Smith has been charged with:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"UnorderedList_unordered-list__gzblI\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">Dangerous driving<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">Failing to provide a specimen for analysis<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">Driving without insurance<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">Driving while disqualified<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Avon and Somerset Police officers also recovered a stolen vehicle during the chase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A second man and a woman, both aged in their 40s, were also arrested during the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">They were released on conditional police bail while enquiries continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been chargedGeneric image(Image: Western Mail) A man has been charged with multiple driving offences after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[9312,381,748,30,188,393,12716,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-397516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-avon-and-somerset-constabulary","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-courts","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-fishponds","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115146625233091216","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397516","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=397516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}