{"id":538102,"date":"2026-07-22T06:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T06:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/538102\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T06:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T06:07:09","slug":"highway-showdown-papamoa-altercation-caught-on-video-as-car-knocks-man-off-his-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/538102\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway showdown: P\u0101p\u0101moa altercation caught on video as car knocks man off his feet"},"content":{"rendered":"

A person from the black vehicle advanced on the water-bottle thrower, punching the air, before returning to their car as the other man backed away.<\/p>\n

The black car is then seen reversing into the water-bottle thrower, launching him into the air.<\/p>\n

The man was knocked off his feet, flipped off the roof of the vehicle and fell on to his back.<\/p>\n

\"AA car crashed into a man and his vehicle in a road rage incident on P\u0101p\u0101moa’s Domain Rd.<\/p>\n

The vehicle also crashed into the white ute, from which a fourth person exited.<\/p>\n

The water-bottle thrower chased after the black car but it sped away.<\/p>\n

A police spokesperson confirmed a report of the incident on Domain Rd<\/a> and said officers arrived just after 2pm. <\/p>\n

\u201cA road user has allegedly threatened another road user.\u201d<\/p>\n

They said there were no reports of injuries.<\/p>\n

Police were making inquiries.<\/p>\n

Bijou Johnson<\/a> is a multimedia journalist based in Bay of Plenty. A passionate writer and reader, she grew up in Tauranga and developed a love for journalism while exploring various disciplines at university. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Classical Studies from Massey University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person from the black vehicle advanced on the water-bottle thrower, punching the air, before returning to their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[68,58454,125659,806,3944,9525,5418,26755,293,671,296,2205,82837,4479,5158,111,43,139,69,6662,90,23282,29225,36565,1314,30948,6845,416],"class_list":["post-538102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-air","tag-altercation","tag-apparent","tag-as","tag-car","tag-caught","tag-feet","tag-highway","tag-his","tag-incident","tag-into","tag-involved","tag-knocks","tag-launching","tag-man","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-off","tag-on","tag-ppmoa","tag-rage","tag-reversed","tag-road","tag-showdown","tag-vehicle","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538102","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=538102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}