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<\/p>\nAn Auckland church is mourning the death of one of its members, who was killed when a car crashed into a cafe on Auckland’s North Shore yesterday. <\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to William Souter St in Forrest Hill shortly before 9am after a car mounted a curb, hitting two people before smashing into a building. <\/p>\n
A person was taken to the hospital in a critical condition but died of their injuries. Two others were also injured in the crash, with one taken to hospital with moderate injuries. <\/p>\n
The Windsor Park Baptist Church identified Sarah Clark, a staff member and part of the church community, as the person killed in the “tragic accident”. It also said her daughter was one of those injured.<\/p>\n
1News footage showed police officers investigating the scene on William Souter St. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
On Facebook, the church paid tribute to Clark as a “dear colleague and friend”. <\/p>\n
It said Clark was the manager of the Windsor Park LifeCare Trust, the church’s faith-based counselling centre.<\/p>\n
“Sarah faithfully served on our staff team for more than seven years and had been part of the Windsor Park church family for many decades, serving in various leadership capacities.” <\/p>\n
It said she had met her husband Cam through the church’s youth ministry. <\/p>\n
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A car hit a building on William Souter Street, Forrest Hill shorty before 9am. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
“Together, they have invested deeply in the life of this community. <\/p>\n
“Sarah will be remembered for her deep faith, her leadership, her friendship, and the genuine care she showed to so many.”<\/p>\n
The post said “our hearts ache” for Clark’s children as they “face this devastating loss”. <\/p>\n
“Even as we hold onto the hope that Sarah is now with the Lord, we grieve deeply with those who loved her.”<\/p>\n
It said her daughter who suffered “minor injuries” had returned home from hospital. <\/p>\n
The church said it would welcome those grieving Clark’s death. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Auckland church is mourning the death of one of its members, who was killed when a car…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,51,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-325199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-auckland","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325199","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=325199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}