{"id":365668,"date":"2026-04-06T02:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/365668\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T02:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:28:10","slug":"two-hurt-in-crash-involving-unmarked-police-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/365668\/","title":{"rendered":"Two hurt in crash involving unmarked police car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4LXYB41_image_crop_136778\" width=\"1050\" height=\"699\" alt=\"No caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nThe collision happened just before 8.50pm on Newton Road in Auckland&#8217;s Eden Terrace (file photo).<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Nate McKinnon\n<\/p>\n<p>A crash involving an unmarked police vehicle on Sunday night left two injured, including an officer.<\/p>\n<p>The collision happened just before 8.50pm on Newton Road in Auckland&#8217;s Eden Terrace, police said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two people sustained minor injuries in the crash &#8211; the driver of the second vehicle involved and a police officer,&#8221; Inspector Kai Shao said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two other police officers in the unmarked vehicle were uninjured, however both vehicles have sustained extensive damage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Newton Road was briefly closed, reopening around midnight.<\/p>\n<p>Shao said enquiries into the incident were ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero, a daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The collision happened just before 8.50pm on Newton Road in Auckland&#8217;s Eden Terrace (file photo). Photo: RNZ \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-365668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365668","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=365668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}