Boy racer crashes into MP Nick Smith's homesUPPLIEDA car in a high-speed chase with police was left dangling from a tree after it crashed into Building and Housing Minister Nick Smith's property. The incident woke the minister, his wife and four children in their Nelson home at 1am on Sunday. Online, Smith lamented the "boy racer problem" had "hit home". Smith, who is the MP for Nelson, said he has had constituency work on issues with boy racers in the past. ​READ MORE:* Boy racers take pole position* Boy racer invasion riles residents* Nick Smith reveals he gargled paint stripper as mouthwashPolice followed soon after and said they had clocked the car doing 130 kilometres an hour in the 50kmh zone before the crash on the Waimea Rd, Stoke.

Source: Stuff August 07, 2016 03:24 UTC