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Several witness statements read out in court said Mr Woods, an ex-RAF pilot, had been driving erratically along the M6 northbound.

The Lamborghini was traveling northbound on Highland Avenue when it struck an SUV near 1st Street.

He was later spotted travelling erratically and drifting across lanes on the northbound M6.

He has begun the challenge at Stirling Point in Bluff - the southern tip of New Zealand's South Island - and will run northbound for about 60 days to the finish line in Cape Rēinga, in Northland.

An SUV was reportedly driving 60 to 70 mph northbound in the southbound carpool lanes of the freeway near Getty Center Drive just after 4 a.m.