{"id":576240,"date":"2026-08-21T21:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T21:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/576240\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T21:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T21:30:11","slug":"howick-crash-car-torn-apart-and-person-critically-injured-in-ridge-rd-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/576240\/","title":{"rendered":"Howick crash: Car torn apart and person critically injured in Ridge Rd collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/a307a44a-0978-4746-85bf-b12fc042eeba.png\" alt=\"Ben Leahy\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/ben-leahy\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Leahy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reporter\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>21 Aug, 2026 07:56 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A person is critically injured in hospital after a car slammed into parked vehicles on Howick&#8217;s Ridge Rd in Auckland overnight. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A person is critically injured in hospital after a car slammed into parked vehicles in east Aucklandovernight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The car crashed  into several parked cars on Howick\u2019s Ridge Rd just after 1am, a police spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThe driver was transported to hospital in a critical condition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         A Fire and<br \/>\n         Emergency spokesman said a person was trapped under a vehicle and the brigade used rescue equipment to free them.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\"> \u201dThey were placed in the care of ambulance and the scene was left with police.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Leahy Reporter\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7 21 Aug, 2026 07:56 PMQuick Read \u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,95,103394,283726,3944,34094,3549,12939,3806,2241,137484,78,10933,296,111,43,139,69,26227,4056,2642,21713,41401,53475,6861],"class_list":["post-576240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-and","tag-apart","tag-aucklandovernight","tag-car","tag-collision","tag-crash","tag-critically","tag-east","tag-hospital","tag-howick","tag-in","tag-injured","tag-into","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-parked","tag-person","tag-rd","tag-ridge","tag-slammed","tag-torn","tag-vehicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576240","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=576240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}