{"id":562374,"date":"2026-08-08T02:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562374\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T02:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:10:14","slug":"one-in-hospital-after-car-crashes-into-building-in-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562374\/","title":{"rendered":"One in hospital after car crashes into building in Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"

A person was taken to hospital after a car crashed into a building in Auckland during the early hours of this morning. <\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to the property on Tamaki Drive at around 2am. <\/p>\n

Hato Hone St John said one ambulance and two critical care units were sent to the scene. <\/p>\n

\"Firefighters<\/p>\n

Firefighters at the scene of a crash in Auckland. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n

One person was taken to Auckland Hospital in a moderate condition. <\/p>\n

Photos from the scene showed significant damage to the front of the car. There was also damage to the front of the building. <\/p>\n

Firefighters were also at the scene. <\/p>\n

At the scene, Ray White managing partner Wayne Maguire joked he was called out to reports the housing market had crashed.<\/p>\n

\"Ray<\/p>\n

Ray White Managing Partner Wayne Maguire. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n

“Turns out that’s not actually the case. It’s only a car has crashed.”<\/p>\n

“We’ve got a car sitting in the front of the building … hopefully nobody’s stolen a house during the process.”<\/p>\n

He said substantial damage had been done to the office, but the plan was to get somebody in to replace the storefront tomorrow morning, and it’d be “business as normal”.<\/p>\n

“I’ve got daughters, so I’m very pleased that it’s this and nothing else.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person was taken to hospital after a car crashed into a building in Auckland during the early…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1081,51,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-562374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-accident","tag-auckland","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562374","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=562374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}