{"id":506259,"date":"2026-07-02T13:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/506259\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T13:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:36:16","slug":"school-bus-and-car-collide-on-springfield-rd-south-of-whangarei-no-one-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/506259\/","title":{"rendered":"School bus and car collide on Springfield Rd south of Whang\u0101rei, no one hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/9efb65fe-03d6-4e60-850d-8911700e8a2f.png\" alt=\"Brodie Stone\" 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\/northern-advocate\/author\/brodie-stone\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Brodie Stone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Northern Advocate\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>1 Jul, 2026 10:20 PMQuick 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 were called to the intersection of Springfield Rd and Salmon Rd just after 8.20am. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Passengers on a school bus escaped unhurt after it was involved in a crash with a car in Whang\u0101rei. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police were called to the intersection of Springfield Rd and Salmon Rd just after 8.20am. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cThe minor collision between a car and a school bus blocked the intersection for<br \/>\n         a short time,\u201d a spokesperson said.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">No one was injured, and the children were transferred to another bus and taken to school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John responded with one ambulance and one operations manager but were not required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brodie Stone Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Northern Advocate\u00b7 1 Jul, 2026 10:20 PMQuick Read \u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,95,30482,3944,28647,3549,19688,14046,2205,111,43,139,7805,69,1118,90,5270,29459,2642,4062,1240,27607,204052,1869,102],"class_list":["post-506259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-and","tag-bus","tag-car","tag-collide","tag-crash","tag-escaped","tag-hurt","tag-involved","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-no","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-on","tag-one","tag-passengers","tag-rd","tag-school","tag-south","tag-springfield","tag-unhurt","tag-whangrei","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506259","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=506259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}