{"id":41263,"date":"2025-09-24T19:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/41263\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T19:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:40:10","slug":"one-seriously-injured-busy-road-closed-after-auckland-cbd-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/41263\/","title":{"rendered":"One seriously injured, busy road closed after Auckland CBD crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person is seriously injured, and a busy road in Auckland&#8217;s CBD is closed following a crash this morning. <\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to Victoria Street near the intersection of Albert Street at around 5.40am. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this stage, one person is in a serious condition,&#8221; police said.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/news\/news-clips-str-339lcekhbnb7uf6jkx3pwo0h3qh-1758741141376\/serious-crash-shuts-busy-auckland-cbd-intersections-in-depth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Serious crash shuts busy Auckland CBD intersections &#8211; watch on TVNZ+<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A witness at the scene told 1News she saw a vehicle crash into a pole. Photos from the scene also showed a police car was seriously damaged. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/a-damaged-police-car-at-the-scene-of-the-crash-in-aucklands-KPQJ62CUZRBAHINKGL4MJ77KXQ.jpg\" alt=\"A damaged police car at the scene of the crash in Auckland's CBD. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">A damaged police car at the scene of the crash in Auckland&#8217;s CBD.  (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p>Police, Fire and Emergency New Zealand, and St John were all at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>Victoria Street was closed between Queen and Hobson Streets, just as many commuters were set to begin their drive into the city. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police are advising motorists to use alternate routes as road closures may be in place for some time.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The serious crash unit was in attendance, and an investigation would be carried out to determine the cause of the crash. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person is seriously injured, and a busy road in Auckland&#8217;s CBD is closed following a crash this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,51,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-41263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-accident","9":"tag-auckland","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41263","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=41263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}