{"id":481802,"date":"2026-06-17T11:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/481802\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T11:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:03:10","slug":"auckland-police-use-axe-to-save-trapped-driver-from-sinking-car-at-okahu-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/481802\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland police use axe to save trapped driver from sinking car at \u014ckahu Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Additional police units were at the \u014ckahu Bay boat ramp within minutes, with a police boat also arriving in the bay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Members of the public came to lend a hand from pontoons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Graham said the vehicle became submerged and police had to extract the man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAn officer used an axe to smash a window to create an escape path for the driver, before swimming him to the pontoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOther officers have provided first aid before ambulance staff were on scene a short time later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Graham commended the courage of Maritime Unit officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOur team have encountered a risky and life-threatening situation that was rapidly evolving in front of them,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThey have not hesitated to respond and without a doubt have helped saved a life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Police said the man was taken to hospital and was  receiving support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Additional police units were at the \u014ckahu Bay boat ramp within minutes, with a police boat also arriving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11730,1975,51,13612,1561,3944,19552,9944,71,174415,9878,111,43,139,69,23421,675,11590,38052,61,6382,8528,6306],"class_list":["post-481802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-afternoon","tag-at","tag-auckland","tag-axe","tag-bay","tag-car","tag-driver","tag-drowning","tag-from","tag-kahu","tag-monday","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-officers","tag-police","tag-save","tag-sinking","tag-to","tag-took","tag-trapped","tag-use"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481802","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=481802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}