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<\/p>\nA driver is in “shock” after his vehicle was involved in a serious crash in Auckland’s Te Atat\u016b on Saturday, which left three people injured. <\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to the collision between two cars and a bus on Te Atat\u016b Rd, near McLeod Rd and Roberts Rd, at around 11.35am Saturday. <\/p>\n
Hato Hone St John responded with two ambulances, one rapid response, and one manager.<\/p>\n
One person was transported to Auckland City Hospital in a serious condition, while two others in a moderate condition were taken to Wait\u0101kere Hospital, a spokesperson said. <\/p>\n
The driver of an SUV involved in the crash told 1News he was driving north on Te Atat\u016b South Rd when an oncoming vehicle collided head-on with his. <\/p>\n
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Police said it received reports of the crash at around 11.35am Saturday. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
There were multiple people in his car at the time of the crash, he said, including an 8-year-old child.<\/p>\n
The door to his SUV was jammed shut after the collision, forcing him to exit from the passenger side. <\/p>\n
Everybody in the vehicle was okay but had gone to hospital for a checkup. <\/p>\n
He said the incident had left him in “shock”, saying “it all happened so fast”. <\/p>\n
The bus was parked at the time of the incident. <\/p>\n
Photos from the scene showed two wrecked cars in the middle of the road. One was smashed in the front, while the other was missing its driver’s-side doors and was against the bus. <\/p>\n
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(Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
Multiple police officers were at the scene, with debris strewn across the road. <\/p>\n
Auckland Transport told 1News there were two passengers and the driver on board the bus at the time of the incident who were uninjured. <\/p>\n
“They have been transferred to another bus and have continued their journey,” said an AT spokesperson. <\/p>\n
Fire and Emergency NZ responded with two crews from Te Atat\u016b and Henderson. The Henderson trucks had departed by 12.10pm. <\/p>\n
A local business owner told 1News they had seen police and ambulance drive past. <\/p>\n
The road was closed following the crash but had since reopened, Auckland Transport said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver is in “shock” after his vehicle was involved in a serious crash in Auckland’s Te Atat\u016b…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-463393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463393","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=463393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}