{"id":227867,"date":"2026-01-11T07:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T07:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/227867\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T07:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T07:01:09","slug":"auckland-crashes-car-flips-in-birkenhead-as-power-pole-brought-down-in-browns-bay-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/227867\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland crashes: Car flips in Birkenhead as power pole brought down in Brown\u2019s Bay accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe transported one person to North Shore Hospital in a moderate condition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Photos from the scene posted on Facebook showed multiple vehicles stopped behind the flipped car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Another crash occurred at about 4.05pm today in Brown\u2019s Bay on the North Shore after a vehicle struck a power pole and brought the lines down on Browns Bay Rd <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThere are no reports of any injuries, but the road is blocked due to the lines down, and cordons are in place,\u201d police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe power company has been notified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Traffic was halted on Birkenhead's Waipa Street after a car hit a parked vehicle.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Traffic was halted on Birkenhead&#8217;s Waipa Street after a car hit a parked vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/auckland\/two-vehicle-crash-causes-heavy-congestion-on-great-north-rd-to-henderson\/F67PZNXN5FDUTPRSOOPVXQWR2Y\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/auckland\/two-vehicle-crash-causes-heavy-congestion-on-great-north-rd-to-henderson\/F67PZNXN5FDUTPRSOOPVXQWR2Y\/\">A two-vehicle crash this afternoon <\/a>caused traffic delays along Great North Rd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Police were alerted to the incident at the intersection of Kirby St and Great North Rd at around 12.50pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">One of the vehicles involved was left in the middle of the road while another had spun onto a berm, blocking the footpath.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John said it sent one ambulance to the scene, where the crew assessed and treated one patient in a minor condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">A Herald reporter at the site said traffic heading westward towards Henderson was diverted along an alternative route, while New Lynn-bound traffic was restricted to one lane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe transported one person to North Shore Hospital in a moderate condition.\u201d Photos from the scene posted on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1081,28976,2840,11730,806,51,1561,109397,11783,13532,3944,2199,3549,29422,6097,2837,24611,124645,64944,78,111,43,139,69,23897,10112,66146,17294,1961],"class_list":["post-227867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-accident","tag-accidents","tag-across","tag-afternoon","tag-as","tag-auckland","tag-bay","tag-birkenhead","tag-brought","tag-browns","tag-car","tag-city","tag-crash","tag-crashes","tag-down","tag-during","tag-flipped","tag-flips","tag-hectic","tag-in","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pole","tag-power","tag-roof","tag-suburb","tag-this"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227867","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=227867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}