{"id":564842,"date":"2026-08-10T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/564842\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:34:14","slug":"seven-injured-after-bus-and-car-crash-in-aucklands-ponsonby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/564842\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven injured after bus and car crash in Auckland’s Ponsonby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seven people have been injured, including two being taken to hospital, after a crash between a car and bus in the central Auckland suburb of Ponsonby this afternoon. <\/p>\n

Police were called to Ponsonby Rd near the intersection of Brown St just after 2pm on Monday. <\/p>\n

Hato Hone St John said it responded with three ambulances and one operations manager. <\/p>\n

“Our ambulance staff treated and assessed seven patients and transported two of them to Auckland City Hospital,” a spokesperson said. <\/p>\n

\"Source:<\/p>\n

Source: Rose Campbell (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n

“One patient was in a serious condition, the other was in a moderate condition.”<\/p>\n

Hato Hone St John said another person in a moderate condition and four others in minor conditions did not require transport to hospital. <\/p>\n

Images from the scene showed a blue vehicle with significant damage to its left hand side, including a badly crumpled driver’s side door. <\/p>\n

An Auckland Transport No.20 bus, running between St Lukes and Wynyard Quarter, was also pictured at the scene. <\/p>\n

\"An<\/p>\n

An Auckland Transport No.20 bus on Ponsonby Rd this afternoon. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n

“Early reports say the car pulled out in front of the bus,” an Auckland Transport spokesperson said. <\/p>\n

AT said it appeared the bus driver had been injured in the crash. <\/p>\n

Police advised motorists to avoid the area and expect delays. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven people have been injured, including two being taken to hospital, after a crash between a car and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-564842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564842","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=564842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}