{"id":576500,"date":"2026-08-22T03:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/576500\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T03:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:30:11","slug":"driver-critically-injured-after-vehicle-hits-parked-cars-in-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/576500\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver critically injured after vehicle hits parked cars in Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver was taken to hospital in a critical condition after crashing into several parked cars in Auckland overnight.  <\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to Ridge Rd in Howick just after 1am on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said a vehicle had collided with several cars parked on the side of the road.  <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fire-crews-said-one-person-needed-to-be-rescued-after-gettin-A7DLKKDG5VCGFJ3UP2FVQUGQIA.jpg\" alt=\"Fire crews said one person needed to be rescued after getting trapped. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Fire crews said one person needed to be rescued after getting trapped.  (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p>Footage from the scene showed mangled cars and debris strewn across the road. <\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency NZ said one person was trapped under a vehicle and equipment was required to rescue them.  <\/p>\n<p>Hato Hone St John took one person to Auckland Hospital.  <\/p>\n<p>The serious crash unit was investigating.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver was taken to hospital in a critical condition after crashing into several parked cars in Auckland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1081,51,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-576500","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\/576500","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=576500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}