{"id":168661,"date":"2025-12-05T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/168661\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T01:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T01:00:08","slug":"car-crashes-into-grafton-auckland-home-jolting-neighbours-awake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/168661\/","title":{"rendered":"Car crashes into Grafton, Auckland home jolting neighbours awake"},"content":{"rendered":"
The car was towed away leaving the front room of the Grafton villa exposed. Photo \/ Sylvie Whinray<\/p>\n
Fire and ambulance services attended the accident within 10 minutes and one person was taken to the nearby Auckland City Hospital in a moderate condition.<\/p>\n
The car has since been towed away and the facade of the house left exposed.<\/p>\n
One column supporting the roof of the veranda was taken out by the crash and the fretwork damaged.<\/p>\n
Debris was piled up on either side of the point where the car entered the house, including the front door.<\/p>\n
The effects of the impact of the vehicle to the interior of the villa were also seen, such as overturned drawers and shelving.<\/p>\n
The car crash left damage to the veranda and front room of the villa. Photo \/ Sylvie Whinray<\/p>\n
Virgilio Abarintos, who lives two streets away from the crash, said he was awoken to a scraping sound \u201clike an old garage door rolling up\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a very quiet area, so the bang was unusual,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Neighbour Hannan Munroe, who has lived on the narrow one-way street for eight years, said she thinks the owners may have accidentally applied the accelerator instead of the brakes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt sounded like someone\u2019s recycling bin being hit at full force.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt did jolt me awake and I noticed everyone out in the street, but I went back to sleep,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
– Additional reporting RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The car was towed away leaving the front room of the Grafton villa exposed. Photo \/ Sylvie Whinray…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,51,34263,682,3944,1853,15979,29422,1359,109488,305,1345,10053,296,46369,109489,1304,3244,111,43,139,69,530,17294,1961],"class_list":["post-168661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-auckland","tag-awake","tag-being","tag-car","tag-central","tag-crashed","tag-crashes","tag-described","tag-grafton","tag-have","tag-home","tag-house","tag-into","tag-jolted","tag-jolting","tag-morning","tag-neighbours","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-residents","tag-suburb","tag-this"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168661","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=168661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}