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<\/p>\nA motorist driving the wrong way down Auckland’s Quay St tried to run over a member of the public and later rammed a police car.<\/p>\n
A witness has described seeing a driver in a blue car being chased by a police officer – on foot – near Princes Wharf.<\/p>\n
The witness, who asked only to be named as Paul, said the officer had parked his police vehicle diagonally in a bid to block the blue car from leaving the Princes Wharf area.<\/p>\n
The officer was outside his vehicle and yelling to the driver in the blue car to stop.<\/p>\n
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But instead of stopping the blue vehicle mounted the footpath to the entrance of Princes Wharf and took off up towards Hobson St.<\/p>\n
“We thought that was it, but then [the driver] did a U-turn and drives into the driver’s side of the police car – where the police officer had just got back in.<\/p>\n
“He took a massive hit.”<\/p>\n
Paul said immediately after the police vehicle was rammed, the driver of the blue car got out and appeared to crouch down behind the car.<\/p>\n
“People [in the area] all ran away then.”<\/p>\n
Paul said he thought it was because it looked as if the driver was crouching down to pick something up.<\/p>\n
The police officer, he said, managed to open the rammed-in door of his police vehicle and run towards the other side.<\/p>\n
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Police said a woman was arrested without incident at the scene and will now face charges.<\/p>\n
Inspector Peter Raynes said police were called to a report that a vehicle was driving the wrong way in Quay St, near Princes Wharf, at 8.04am.<\/p>\n
“The same vehicle allegedly tried to run over a member of the public.<\/p>\n
“Police staff have quickly attended and have been on foot attempting to get the woman to get out of her vehicle, when she has driven off, done a U-turn and then driven back and deliberately run into the stationary police vehicle.”<\/p>\n
St John confirmed an ambulance crew was sent to the scene and treated one person with minor injuries.<\/p>\n