{"id":372711,"date":"2026-04-10T09:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/372711\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:14:12","slug":"car-makes-mess-of-west-auckland-takeaway-interior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/372711\/","title":{"rendered":"Car makes \u2018mess\u2019 of West Auckland takeaway interior"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA car drove into Ming Xing Fast Food takeaway outlet in Glendene, West Auckland.
\nPhoto: Supplied\n<\/p>\n

A car crashed into a West Auckland takeaway outlet on Thursday night, leaving the owner facing the prospect of being closed for a month.<\/p>\n

Weiming Lin of Ming Xing Fast Food in Glendene was notified about the incident by a friend who happened to pass the shop after the incident.<\/p>\n

“I came around immediately. The tow truck was still there,” Lin said.<\/p>\n

“The front window and the wall … have all been smashed. The interior was also a mess.”<\/p>\n

He said a counter in the shop had been shunted off its original location.<\/p>\n

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\nThe car that drove into a takeaway outlet in West Auckland.
\nPhoto: Supplied\n<\/p>\n

Police said they were called to the single-vehicle crash on Great North Road at around 9:50pm in which a car had struck a store.<\/p>\n

“The shop was closed at the time, and there were no reports of injuries,” a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

“Enquiries are ongoing into the circumstances of the crash.”<\/p>\n

Lin said he couldn’t figure out how the vehicle managed to strike his store, as it wasn’t close to any sharp turning point.<\/p>\n

“We probably can’t operate normally for a month,” he said.<\/p>\n

He said he was communicating with his insurance provider and would only know how significant the losses he faced would be later.<\/p>\n

“There will be some loss as we won’t have any income and still must pay the mortgage and all sorts of costs,” he said. “It’s a headache for me.”<\/p>\n

Police detained the driver on the night of the accident, Lin said.<\/p>\n

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\nWeiming Lin, owner of Ming Xing Fast Food, said the accident messed up the interior of his store.
\nPhoto: Supplied\n<\/p>\n

Fire and Emergency northern shift manager Garreth Lewis said it responded to the crash with four fire trucks, leaving the scene after assisting police and the ambulance.<\/p>\n

“There were no persons trapped,” he said.<\/p>\n

Hato Hone St John also attended but was not required on scene as it appeared to be a non-injury incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A car drove into Ming Xing Fast Food takeaway outlet in Glendene, West Auckland. Photo: Supplied A car…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-372711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372711","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=372711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}