Businessman Callum Lee was driving home from Whakatane on Friday when a police chase interrupted his journey.
Lee had just finished a job for his painting company, Prime Painting and Decorating, and was driving home to Tauranga when he was confronted with a large build-up of cars.
"I came around the corner...and there was a policewoman waving her arms and throwing out the spikes," Lee told Newshub.
Lee was forced to stop behind the long queue of vehicles, snaking along the road between Matata and Whakatane.
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"I thought oh s**t, somethings about to go down," he said.
As he was stopped, he quickly grabbed his phone, so he could film whatever was about to happen.
A few seconds into the video Lee provided to Newshub, a car comes screaming over the hill in front of him, while a police car follows close behind.
A ute pulls in front of the car, to stop the chase, but the car is thrown off the road by the spikes.
The car then tumbles down into a cattle underpass, with the video showing debris flying off the vehicle.
Lee told Newshub that after he stopped filming, police rushed up to the edge of the hole the car had fallen down.
"The cops went up to the hole with tasers drawn, but I think they realised the guy was in a bad place," Lee said.
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"You could hear a guy groaning, and they weren't too phased about him running away, that's for sure."
Lee could not see the runaway driver, so he did not know what the extent of his injuries might be.
Police have confirmed that they initiated a pursuit due to a vehicle failing to stop for them, after police saw the car drive through a stop sign while driving erratically.
"The driver went through Matata, and the car eventually ended up in a ditch on the side of the road," a police spokesperson told Newshub.
Police spoke with the driver back at Whakatane station and the car was towed.
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