{"id":108754,"date":"2025-10-30T11:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/108754\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T11:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:36:10","slug":"sunlive-car-crashes-into-bank-building-damaging-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/108754\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Car crashes into bank building, damaging structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vehicle has crashed into an ANZ bank in Tauranga, damaging part of a roof.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to 11th Ave about 1.20pm after a report of a crash in which a car struck a building, a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no reports of any injuries but it appears the building has sustained some damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A reporter at the scene said part of the awning roof had collapsed and a column behind temporary metal fencing appeared damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency tape surrounded a silver people-mover vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Two ambulances were there, along with police.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\" Damaged roof of the ANZ bank on St John St. Photo \/ Bijou Johnson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AHJIAX5IH5CVTLTD4MGNLZ4NDU.jpg\" width=\"100%;\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nDamaged roof of the ANZ bank on St John St. Photo \/ Bijou Johnson<\/p>\n<p>A police officer at the scene told NZME a woman crashed her vehicle into the building.<\/p>\n<p>A Hato Hone St John spokesperson said two patients, both in a minor condition, were assessed at the scene. They did not need to be taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>An ANZ staff member told NZME the branch would close. It was not clear for how long.<\/p>\n<p>The crash came two months after an incident on September 3 where two vehicles crashed and one appeared to hit the ANZ Bank building.<\/p>\n<p>Two people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunlive.co.nz\/news\/371073-minor-injuries-in-tauranga-crash.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sunlive.co.nz\/news\/371073-minor-injuries-in-tauranga-crash.html\">sustained minor injuries<\/a> in that crash.<\/p>\n<p>NZME has contacted ANZ for further comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vehicle has crashed into an ANZ bank in Tauranga, damaging part of a roof. Emergency services were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-108754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}