{"id":501833,"date":"2026-06-29T23:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/501833\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T23:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:57:10","slug":"whangarei-driver-filmed-reversing-on-sh1-through-intersections-goes-viral-on-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/501833\/","title":{"rendered":"Whang\u0101rei driver filmed reversing on SH1 through intersections goes viral on TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">The video has 254,000 views, 23,000 likes and hundreds of comedic comments praising the driver\u2019s \u201cmad\u201d skills. <\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThat\u2019s actually really impressive, I would\u2019ve been stressing, crying,\u201d one wrote. <\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI can hardly reverse out my driveway,\u201d another joked. <\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Another claimed the backwards stunt qualified the motorist as the \u201cworld\u2019s best backwards driver\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">An AA spokesperson told the Herald that, as per the New Zealand Road Code, reversing was only allowed when it was safe and necessary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Generally, it is suitable for short manoeuvres such as reversing out of a driveway or into a car park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt is risky and illegal to travel in reverse for a long distance along public roads, and can be considered careless or dangerous driving,\u201d the spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Police and the video poster have been approached for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The video has 254,000 views, 23,000 likes and hundreds of comedic comments praising the driver\u2019s \u201cmad\u201d skills. \u201cThat\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11776,19552,16840,5275,2219,26755,8454,55838,2510,111,43,139,1067,69,90,38951,37229,13672,210,613,416,5143,1869],"class_list":["post-501833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-busy","tag-driver","tag-filmed","tag-goes","tag-gone","tag-highway","tag-including","tag-intersections","tag-multiple","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-northland","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-reversing","tag-sh1","tag-state","tag-through","tag-tiktok","tag-video","tag-viral","tag-whangrei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501833","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=501833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}