Police are monitoring a gathering involving hundreds of cars and people. Photo: RNZ / Mark Stevens
Police are monitoring a large gathering of what RNZ understands to be street racers in Wellington.
A witness said hundreds of cars and people were gathered in the Spotlight carpark on Hutt Road on Friday evening.
Several police were also in attendance.
Police said they were monitoring the gathering, but no issues had been reported so far.
The gathering comes just days after new legislation, set to bring in harsher penalties for what the government called "idiot" street racers, was introduced to Parliament.
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