{"id":49067,"date":"2025-09-28T23:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/49067\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:43:07","slug":"pedestrian-seriously-injured-after-being-hit-by-car-botany-rd-in-east-auckland-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/49067\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian seriously injured after being hit by car, Botany Rd in East Auckland closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">A worker nearby said he heard a \u201cbang\u201d when the car hit the pedestrian and then the sound of sirens a short time later. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">Another person said the road was \u201cfilled with police cars\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">Botany Rd is now closed between Millhouse Dr and Golfland Rd. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">The spokesperson said the police  are investigating the crash to determine its cause. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">Police are urging motorists to use alternate routes as road closures may be in place for some time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">A Hato Hone St John spokesperson said they  took one person to Middlemore Hospital in a serious condition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\">Sign up to Herald Premium Editor\u2019s Picks<\/a>, delivered straight to your inbox every Friday. Editor-in-Chief Murray Kirkness picks the week\u2019s best features, interviews and investigations. Sign up for Herald Premium <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/subscription\/offers\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/subscription\/offers\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A worker nearby said he heard a \u201cbang\u201d when the car hit the pedestrian and then the sound&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,51,42611,9218,682,41062,3595,3944,651,5201,3806,27501,3594,78,10933,5165,111,43,139,35921,69,33551,2642,21532,3048,23419,42612,1857,20705,540,12767],"class_list":["post-49067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-auckland","tag-bang","tag-before","tag-being","tag-botany","tag-by","tag-car","tag-close","tag-closed","tag-east","tag-heard","tag-hit","tag-in","tag-injured","tag-loud","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-noise","tag-nz","tag-pedestrian","tag-rd","tag-rush","tag-said","tag-seriously","tag-sirens","tag-site","tag-struck","tag-where","tag-worker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49067","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=49067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}