{"id":541091,"date":"2026-07-24T00:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T00:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/541091\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T00:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T00:04:10","slug":"instant-karma-driver-hurls-abuse-at-nigel-farage-crashes-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/541091\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Instant karma&#8217;: Driver hurls abuse at Nigel Farage, crashes car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Controversial UK politician Nigel Farage has posted vision of a driver hurling abuse at him, before slamming into the back of vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Farage, the Reform leader who is running in the Clacton by-election that was triggered by his standing down amid scrutiny of his finances, posted the vision online.<\/p>\n<p>It shows a woman in a grey Vauxhall Astra shouting out &#8220;w*****&#8221; before hitting the car in front. The innocent motorist was in a small line of traffic stopped at a red light. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/the-car-shortly-before-crashing-IPGLHXF4FFD6HMMDFOLL4LJYUA.jpg\" alt=\"The car shortly before crashing \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">The car shortly before crashing  (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She won&#8217;t be doing that again in a hurry,&#8221; someone can be heard saying.<\/p>\n<p>Farage posted the clip with the caption: &#8220;This lady shouted abuse at me and then crashed her own car. That\u2019s what you might call instant karma!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including Ryan Fox arrives back in NZ, and the political heckle that\u2019s going viral. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Controversial UK politician Nigel Farage has posted vision of a driver hurling abuse at him, before slamming into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,42,43,40,38,41,39,1745],"class_list":["post-541091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-uk-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541091","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=541091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}