{"id":229642,"date":"2026-01-12T10:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/229642\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:39:08","slug":"welcome-bay-witnesses-describe-huge-out-of-control-party-where-teen-hit-by-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/229642\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Bay: Witnesses describe \u2018huge\u2019, \u2018out-of-control\u2019 party where teen hit by car"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI heard the car screech, then hit something,\u201d they told NZME.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe girl was on the ground unconscious.\u201d<\/p>\n

The witness said the party was \u201chuge\u201d, with 200 or more teenagers and \u201cunderaged kids\u201d shoulder-to-shoulder.<\/p>\n

Another eyewitness has described the party as \u201clarge and out-of-control\u201d.<\/p>\n

They said there were multiple fights breaking out while police tried to contain the scene.<\/p>\n

\"EmergencyEmergency services were called to Kaitemako Rd about 11.30pm on Saturday after a 14-year-old girl was hit by a car. Photo \/ Cameron Avery<\/p>\n

A nearby resident said the street was littered with broken glass and alcohol cans the next day.<\/p>\n

They said Kaitemako Rd was \u201crelatively quiet\u201d and they had not seen a party of that size in more than 10 years.<\/p>\n

Police previously said the incident occurred outside an address where there was a large party involving young people.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of these became aggressive to police and ambulance staff who were trying to assist the injured teenager.\u201d<\/p>\n

District deployment co-ordinator Senior Sergeant Roger Schreuder said this was extremely disappointing behaviour.<\/p>\n

Police confirmed today that people were taken into custody at the scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cInquiries continue and once concluded charges are likely.\u201d<\/p>\n

The incident happened in the same suburb where an out-of-control private Halloween party<\/a> led to brawling in Victory St last year.<\/p>\n

Terrified neighbours called police to break up the gathering of hundreds of teenagers.<\/p>\n

A resident later said there had been multiple instances of \u201cfights, drinking and vandalism\u201d in the street before the brawl.<\/p>\n

Bijou Johnson<\/a> is a multimedia journalist based in the Bay of Plenty. A passionate writer and reader, she grew up in Tauranga and developed a love for journalism while exploring various disciplines at university. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Classical Studies from Massey University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI heard the car screech, then hit something,\u201d they told NZME. \u201cThe girl was on the ground unconscious.\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[55413,1561,682,3595,3944,28447,1359,6868,3594,2241,8482,101,111,43,139,69,56707,86828,4762,5424,1227,5163,1361,1845,540,28251],"class_list":["post-229642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-14yearold","tag-bay","tag-being","tag-by","tag-car","tag-describe","tag-described","tag-girl","tag-hit","tag-hospital","tag-huge","tag-left","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ordinary","tag-outofcontrol","tag-party","tag-street","tag-tauranga","tag-teen","tag-that","tag-welcome","tag-where","tag-witnesses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229642","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=229642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}