{"id":41040,"date":"2025-09-24T17:16:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/41040\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T17:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:16:18","slug":"car-flew-over-garden-otago-daily-times-online-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/41040\/","title":{"rendered":"Car \u2018flew over\u2019 garden | Otago Daily Times Online News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A neighbour watched a car fly over a garden before slamming into a garage in Mosgiel yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were alerted to a crash in Severn St about 11.15am after an elderly woman appeared to have driven her car into a house, causing damage to the property.<\/p>\n<p>Witness Jamie Hodgson was in her house across the road when she heard a &#8220;big bang&#8221; from across the road.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Hodgson said the lady, who appeared to be in her 80s, was making a turn from Rentons Rd into Severn St when she accidentally pressed the accelerator instead of the brake.<\/p>\n<p>She &#8220;flew over&#8221; the garden and hit the garage.<\/p>\n<p>The woman appeared to be fine after the collision. \u2014 Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A neighbour watched a car fly over a garden before slamming into a garage in Mosgiel yesterday. Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-41040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41040","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=41040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}