{"id":560993,"date":"2026-08-06T17:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/560993\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T17:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:48:12","slug":"crash-brings-down-light-pole-on-andersons-bay-rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/560993\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash brings down light pole on Andersons Bay Rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A car has crashed into a lamppost in South Dunedin, bringing the pole down and leaving the vehicle badly damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were called to the single-vehicle crash,\u00a0on Andersons Bay Rd near McBride St, at 5:15pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> <img alt=\"\" data-tb-thumbnail=\"true\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/car-v-pole-060826-jpg.webp\" width=\"3150\" height=\"1246\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"narrow-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/><img alt=\"\" data-tb-thumbnail=\"true\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/car-v-pole-060826-jpg.webp\" width=\"3150\" height=\"1246\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"wider-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/>Emergency services at the scene on Thursday evening. Photo: Linda Robertson <\/p>\n<p>A police spokesman said there didn\u2019t appear to be any injuries\u00a0but the road heading towards the city was blocked following the crash.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police, ambulance and fire crews attended.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning, one person was taken to hospital after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/news\/dunedin\/crash-on-icy-dunedin-road-leaves-three-injured-junavrd2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a two-vehicle crash<\/a> on an icy Kaikorai Valley Rd.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A car has crashed into a lamppost in South Dunedin, bringing the pole down and leaving the vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-560993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560993","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=560993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}