{"id":523123,"date":"2026-07-13T01:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T01:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/523123\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T01:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T01:58:09","slug":"te-awamutu-property-destroyed-after-car-crashes-into-lounge-just-misses-elderly-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/523123\/","title":{"rendered":"Te Awamutu property destroyed after car crashes into lounge, just misses elderly woman"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cMy mother was in the lounge but thankfully she just got a little cut on her neck.\u201d<\/p>\n
He\u2019s described his mother \u2018Betty\u2019, who narrowly avoided being hit by the car, as a \u201cstrong lady\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s okay … she\u2019s more upset about her 100-year-old china that was passed down from her mother.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a pile of bricks by her. It\u2019s amazing she didn\u2019t get hit.\u201d<\/p>\n
The crash caused extensive damage to the exterior of the home.<\/p>\n
A police spokesperson said they were called to reports a vehicle had crashed into a house on Raeburne St, Te Awamutu around 7.20pm.<\/p>\n
The driver received serious injuries, while an occupant of the house had minor injuries. <\/p>\n
Inquiries into the cause of the crash were underway.<\/p>\n
Hopkins said the family planned to stay living at the property while insurance worked to fix the damage.<\/p>\n
Power had been restored to the other end of the home and the kitchen remained usable.<\/p>\n
Glass, bricks, wall plaster and other debris was strewn across the home.<\/p>\n
He said Raeburne St was \u201cregularly\u201d used by kids trying to race through.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen they realise it\u2019s a dead-end street and roar back up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hopkins told the Herald the family would \u201cdefinitely\u201d be contacting Waip\u0101 Council to get speedbumps installed on the street. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, you are constantly going over bumps everywhere else, so I think they could do with some here too.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMy mother was in the lounge but thankfully she just got a little cut on her neck.\u201d He\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,38474,1558,10748,3944,29422,20496,17153,14167,15453,259073,2109,1345,296,5511,84025,53399,6501,138334,111,43,139,69,814,16784,37451,8690,210,1524,1354],"class_list":["post-523123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-awamutu","tag-been","tag-came","tag-car","tag-crashes","tag-crashing","tag-damaged","tag-destroyed","tag-elderly","tag-extensively","tag-family","tag-home","tag-into","tag-just","tag-lounge","tag-misses","tag-missing","tag-narrowly","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-property","tag-room","tag-sitting","tag-te","tag-through","tag-waikato","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523123","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=523123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}