{"id":483378,"date":"2026-06-18T09:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/483378\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:22:10","slug":"two-seriously-injured-after-cars-and-bus-crash-in-flat-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/483378\/","title":{"rendered":"Two seriously injured after cars and bus crash in Flat Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/LBVXE765QRCHXCI5VJ5FKIGRZY.png\" alt=\"Zeb Tupa'i\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/zeb-tupai\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Zeb Tupa&#8217;i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multimedia Journalist\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>18 Jun, 2026 07:38 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Police have put diversions in place at Flat Bush, South Auckland, after a crash this evening left two people seriously injured. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency crews worked to free a trapped person after two cars and a bus collided in South Auckland this evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         A Fire and Emergency New Zealand shift manager said two people were seriously injured in the crash, which happened about 5pm at the intersection of Stancombe Rd and Carlos Drive<br \/>\n         in Flat Bush.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Three fire engines rushed to the scene, where crews used extrication equipment to free one person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">A Hato Hone St John spokesperson said two patients with serious injuries were taken to Middlemore Hospital, while a third person with minor injuries did not require hospital treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zeb Tupa&#8217;i Multimedia Journalist\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7 18 Jun, 2026 07:38 AMQuick Read \u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,95,51,30482,16651,6799,28649,3549,23364,15974,19555,9639,4975,42,78,10933,43,4056,23419,1240,1961,40,38,41,39,8528,1237,87539],"class_list":["post-483378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-and","tag-auckland","tag-bus","tag-bush","tag-cars","tag-collided","tag-crash","tag-crews","tag-emergency","tag-evening","tag-flat","tag-free","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-injured","tag-news","tag-person","tag-seriously","tag-south","tag-this","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-trapped","tag-two","tag-worked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483378","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=483378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}