{"id":227209,"date":"2026-01-10T20:47:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/227209\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T20:47:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:47:04","slug":"teenage-girl-seriously-injured-after-being-hit-by-car-outside-tauranga-party-driver-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/227209\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage girl seriously injured after being hit by car outside Tauranga party, driver arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOur crews assessed and treated one patient who was transported to Tauranga Hospital in a critical condition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Senior Sergeant Schreuder said police have arrested the driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cEnquiries continue and once concluded charges are likely,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe incident occurred outside of an address where there was a large party involving youths. Some of these became aggressive to police and ambulance staff who were trying to assist the injured teenager. <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis was extremely disappointing behaviour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\" Police at the scene of a vehicle hitting a pedestrian in Welcome Bay on Saturday, January 10.  Photo \/ Cameron Avery\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/> Police at the scene of a vehicle hitting a pedestrian in Welcome Bay on Saturday, January 10.  Photo \/ Cameron Avery<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">The Serious Crash Unit attended the scene as well as CIB.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">An eyewitness described the party as \u201clarge and out-of-control\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">They told SunLive there were \u201cmultiple fights breaking out\u201d while police tried to contain the scene, with partygoers spread across nearby roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOur crews assessed and treated one patient who was transported to Tauranga Hospital in a critical condition.\u201d Senior&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[55413,74,11924,682,3595,3944,19552,6868,3594,2241,10933,111,43,139,69,86828,14727,4762,23419,5147,1227,10706],"class_list":["post-227209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-14yearold","tag-after","tag-arrested","tag-being","tag-by","tag-car","tag-driver","tag-girl","tag-hit","tag-hospital","tag-injured","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-outofcontrol","tag-outside","tag-party","tag-seriously","tag-starship","tag-tauranga","tag-teenage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227209","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=227209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}