{"id":371693,"date":"2026-04-09T19:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/371693\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T19:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:21:18","slug":"powerlines-down-road-closed-in-auckland-suburb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/371693\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerlines down, road closed in Auckland suburb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4JQGEPR_map1_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"708\" alt=\"Onehunga crash\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo: Google Maps\n<\/p>\n<p>Repair crews are at a crash site in the Auckland suburb of Onehunga after a crash brought down powerlines on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Mount Smart Road is closed following the single-vehicle crash at 5.15am.<\/p>\n<p>Police say noone was injured.<\/p>\n<p>Cordons are in place between Arapuni Ave and Curzon Street.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists should avoid the area and expect delays while emergency services work at the scene.<\/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>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Google Maps Repair crews are at a crash site in the Auckland suburb of Onehunga after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371694,"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":{"0":"post-371693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371693","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=371693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}