Police in Wanganui have arrested a man after officers sealed off the city in a bid to catch the driver of a car involved in a high-speed chase.
The man was arrested shortly after 11am in Castlecliff.
Earlier, police set a cordon around the city after intercepting a car heading south into Wanganui on State Highway 3 which was recorded at speeds up to 150km/h.
Police tried to lay spikes across the road a few kilometres north of the city but were too late to stop the vehicle there.
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But soon after they had spikes across SH3 north and south of the city and on SH4 on the highway from the city to Raetihi.