{"id":286805,"date":"2026-02-16T13:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T13:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/286805\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T13:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T13:49:10","slug":"sunlive-car-ploughs-into-bakery-window-in-tauranga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/286805\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Car ploughs into bakery window in Tauranga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vehicle crashed into a building in Gate Pa shopping centre in Tauranga.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called just after 12pm after reports that a vehicle had collided with a building.<\/p>\n<p>A Fire and Emergency New Zealand communications spokesperson confirmed that \u201ca vehicle had crashed into a building\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A worker at Coupland\u2019s, the bakery involved, said a vehicle had gone into their building.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time the store has been hit.<\/p>\n<p>On June 1, 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunlive.co.nz\/news\/366823-car-ploughs-through-bakery-window-in-gate-p--.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sunlive.co.nz\/news\/366823-car-ploughs-through-bakery-window-in-gate-p--.html\">a Mercedes-Benz ploughed through the bakery\u2019s window<\/a>, causing significant damage.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, police also responded to a separate incident nearby.<\/p>\n<p>At around 3.30pm, officers were called to a two\u2011vehicle crash on Cambridge Rd near Westminster Drive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no reports of injuries,\u201d a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The road was partially blocked while emergency services attended the scene.<\/p>\n<p>At the scene?<\/p>\n<p>Email photos or news tips to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunlive.co.nz\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"83ede6f4f0f1ececeec3f7ebe6f0f6edade0ecadedf9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vehicle crashed into a building in Gate Pa shopping centre in Tauranga. Emergency services were called just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-286805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286805","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=286805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}