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Arrest after tasered driver headbutted officer

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Roads Policing Unmarked police car on road to right with blue lights visible in back window. Alongside it is another black BMW vehicle leaning at an angle against the other car as it is up a grass verge - a brick house can be seen in the distance down the road.Hampshire and Isle of Wight Roads Policing
The man was found to be driving a black BMW with one tyre off the wheel

A man has been arrested after a driver refused to stop for police and headbutted an officer when he was tasered.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary said it found a black BMW 220i being driven along Lymington High Street with one tyre off a wheel, at about 07:10 GMT on Sunday.

The force said the car failed to stop and after a pursuit it used its police car to make tactical contact with the vehicle on Lower Buckland Road, where officers tasered the man when he tried to drive off again.

A 23-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving, failing to stop and assaulting an emergency worker.

The man, from New Milton, was also held for failing to provide a specimen and criminal damage, the force said.

He has since been released on bail while further inquiries are carried out.

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