{"id":90807,"date":"2025-05-10T19:23:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T19:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/90807\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T19:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T19:23:17","slug":"man-in-stolen-vehicle-arrested-after-driving-over-80pmh-with-deflated-tyres-on-m1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/90807\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in stolen vehicle arrested after driving over 80pmh with deflated tyres on M1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Police stinger spike strip (Andrew Matthews\/PA)<\/p>\n

Police have arrested a man on suspicion of a number of offences, including dangerous driving, following the PSNI pursuit of a stolen vehicle that was first spotted in the border area.<\/p>\n

Members of the Irish police force, colleagues, An Garda Siochan, made PSNI officers aware today that a black BMW \u2013 which had been reported stolen from the Dublin area last Sunday \u2013 was travelling on the A1 outside Jonesborough, near Newry. <\/p>\n

“Specially trained Interceptor officers were able to track the vehicle with the overhead assistance of our Air Support Unit,\u201d said PSNI Chief Superintendent Mark Roberts.<\/p>\n

“Roads Policing Unit officers safely deployed a stinger device in the Hillsborough area, in order to prevent a pursuit through busy weekend traffic; however the vehicle continued on deflated tyres along the M1, at speeds in excess of 80mph.<\/p>\n

“The manner of driving was extremely hazardous, weaving in and out of traffic and even, at times, continuing along the hard shoulder.<\/p>\n

“Officers from Armed Response Unit eventually brought the vehicle to a controlled stop in a citybound lane of the M1, between Lisburn and Black’s Road.\u201d<\/p>\n

The driver, a 24-year-old man, has been arrested on suspicion of failing to stop for police, dangerous driving, handling stolen good, no licence and no insurance.<\/p>\n

He remains in custody at this time.<\/p>\n

Chief Superintendent Roberts continued: \u201cOne police vehicle sustained minor damage, and one officer injured his hands while extracting the suspect from his damaged vehicle. Thankfully, he did not require hospital treatment and was able to remain on duty.<\/p>\n

“We, alongside our cross-border partner organisations, remain committed to disrupting the activities of those involved in criminal activity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis arrest was the result of the fantastic collective efforts of officers from across our service, and demonstrates the lengths we go to each day, working together to make our communities safer.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Police stinger spike strip (Andrew Matthews\/PA) Police have arrested a man on suspicion of a number of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[43053,2378,21111,5825,1144,1610,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-90807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-belfast","10":"tag-dublin","11":"tag-niamh-campbell","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114485173165173868","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90807","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=90807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}