{"id":489805,"date":"2026-06-22T11:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T11:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/489805\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T11:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T11:47:11","slug":"bus-crash-cuts-power-to-homes-in-new-lynn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/489805\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus crash cuts power to homes in New Lynn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  alt=\"A power outage is affecting the West Auckland suburb of New Lynn after a bus collided with a power pole. Photo \/ Vector\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A power outage is affecting the West Auckland suburb of New Lynn after a bus collided with a power pole. Photo \/ Vector<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">The company estimated power would be restored by 3.30am at the latest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">Hutchinson Ave remains closed between Margan Ave and Gardner Ave, with traffic management in place, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">Auckland Transport confirmed a bus operating service 011, from Blockhouse Bay Intermediate to New Lynn via Green Bay, struck a power pole outside New Lynn School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">A spokesman said there were no injuries, however the power pole was damaged and is expected to be replaced tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"A power pole on Hutchinson Ave, New Lynn was damaged after a bus crashed into it. Photo \/ Richard J Toloa\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A power pole on Hutchinson Ave, New Lynn was damaged after a bus crashed into it. Photo \/ Richard J Toloa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A power outage is affecting the West Auckland suburb of New Lynn after a bus collided with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,245628,51,1558,30482,28649,3549,10666,2837,42,6800,78,5503,23300,117,43,23897,10112,8145,17294,61,40,38,41,39,3807,102],"class_list":["post-489805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-afterschool","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-bus","tag-collided","tag-crash","tag-cuts","tag-during","tag-headlines","tag-homes","tag-in","tag-knocked","tag-lynn","tag-new","tag-news","tag-pole","tag-power","tag-run","tag-suburb","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-west","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489805","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=489805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}