{"id":309431,"date":"2026-03-02T13:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/309431\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T13:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:28:12","slug":"hastings-fence-damaged-in-stolen-lawnmower-crash-man-and-woman-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/309431\/","title":{"rendered":"Hastings fence damaged in stolen lawnmower crash, man and woman in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/16817683-59d4-41d8-b49c-ccecb22b43ed.png\" alt=\"Michaela Gower\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/hawkes-bay-today\/author\/michaela-gower\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Michaela Gower<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Hawkes Bay Today\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>1 Mar, 2026 11:56 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A stolen ride-on lawnmower that crashed into a fence in Hastings is checked over for damage. Photo \/ Michaela Gower<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A man and woman  are in police custody after crashing a stolen ride-on lawn mower into a fence and trying to flee the scene in Hastings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police were called to the intersection of Southampton St West and Charles St at 10.30am on Monday to reports that a ride-on<br \/>\n         lawnmower had crashed, causing damage to the fence.\n        <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Two people have been taken into custody after the incident. Photo \/ Michaela Gower. \" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Two people have been taken into custody after the incident. Photo \/ Michaela Gower. <\/p>\n<p class=\"BseiQmTTCbyVEQR\" style=\"display:none\">A police spokesman said the pair was caught on Southland Rd near Oliphant Rd about 10.45am where they were taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BseiQmTTCbyVEQR\" style=\"display:none\">One person was taken to hospital following a medical event after the crash. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michaela Gower Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Hawkes Bay Today\u00b7 1 Mar, 2026 11:56 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,95,3549,20496,11928,17153,50363,133943,5194,78,296,85414,86607,5158,112821,111,43,139,69,675,35596,1439,4736,28355,1354],"class_list":{"0":"post-309431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-and","10":"tag-crash","11":"tag-crashing","12":"tag-custody","13":"tag-damaged","14":"tag-fence","15":"tag-flee","16":"tag-hastings","17":"tag-in","18":"tag-into","19":"tag-lawn","20":"tag-lawnmower","21":"tag-man","22":"tag-mower","23":"tag-new-zealand","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-newzealand","26":"tag-nz","27":"tag-police","28":"tag-rideon","29":"tag-scene","30":"tag-stolen","31":"tag-trying","32":"tag-woman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309431","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=309431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}