{"id":144822,"date":"2025-11-20T14:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/144822\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T14:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:27:11","slug":"crash-between-two-buses-and-a-car-causes-chaos-in-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/144822\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash between two buses and a car causes &#8216;chaos&#8217; in Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4JXNDF1_Image_jfif\" width=\"1050\" height=\"699\" alt=\"Bus crash in Glen Innes\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nBroken glass and other items can be seen in the gutter.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Marika Khabazi\n<\/p>\n<p>A person who saw a crash between two buses and a car in Auckland&#8217;s Glen Innes says he thought a bus was going to crash into nearby shops.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were at the scene of the crash on Apirana Avenue, which was reported just after 9am.<\/p>\n<p>Police said one person had been taken to hospital in a moderate condition.<\/p>\n<p>Apirana Avenue was closed between Taniwha Street and Delwyn Lane while the scene was cleared.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4JXNDF1_Image_3_jfif\" width=\"1050\" height=\"699\" alt=\"Bus crash in Glen Innes - witness Dom Nash\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nDom Nash.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Marika Khabazi\n<\/p>\n<p>Dom Nash told RNZ he was in the butchery when he heard loud bangs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw a bus hit another bus, then a car driving up the road swerved towards us, which I thought the bus was going to come into the shop, all of a sudden it hit the brakes, and yeah, chaos everywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nash said the road was cleared shortly after 10:30am.<\/p>\n<p>Diversions were in place and motorists were told to expect delays.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4JXNDF1_Image_2_jfif\" width=\"1050\" height=\"699\" alt=\"Bus crash in Glen Innes\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nThe scene in Glen Innes.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Marika Khabazi\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broken glass and other items can be seen in the gutter. Photo: RNZ \/ Marika Khabazi A person&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-144822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144822","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=144822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}