{"id":568665,"date":"2026-08-14T09:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T09:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/568665\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T09:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T09:24:15","slug":"car-crashes-into-papamoa-beach-store-one-taken-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/568665\/","title":{"rendered":"Car crashes into P\u0101p\u0101moa Beach store, one taken to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person has been taken to hospital in a moderate condition after a car crashed through the front of a sportswear store in P\u0101p\u0101moa Beach in the Bay of Plenty this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the single-vehicle crash on Gravatt Rd at around 3.10pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>St John said two ambulances responded, and three patients were assessed at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of those [was] transported to Tauranga Hospital by ambulance in a moderate condition,&#8221; a St John spokesperson said. &#8220;The other two patients did not require transport to hospital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A witness told 1News a woman believed she was in reverse when the car went forward and crashed into the front of the Under Armour store.<\/p>\n<p>Photos provided to 1News show the vehicle embedded in the shopfront, with broken glass and twisted metal framing strewn across the footpath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has been taken to hospital in a moderate condition after a car crashed through the front&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69,1756],"class_list":["post-568665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568665","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=568665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}