{"id":577335,"date":"2026-08-22T23:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T23:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/577335\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T23:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T23:54:09","slug":"west-auckland-crash-two-people-seriously-injured-man-rescued-from-wrecked-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/577335\/","title":{"rendered":"West Auckland crash: Two people seriously injured, man rescued from wrecked car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Two fire trucks and an operational support unit attended the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John said they responded with three ambulances, a rapid response unit and a manager to the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Two people were taken to Auckland City hospital in a serious condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Residents in the area came out of their homes to watch as emergency crews extracted a man from one vehicle. Debris and shattered glass were littered everywhere.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The vehicle sustained serious damage, while a bus involved in the crash further up the road also sustained moderate damage. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward \" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The vehicle sustained serious damage, while a bus involved in the crash further up the road also sustained moderate damage. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward <\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Authorities closed off part of Don Buck Rd as a result of the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Police said they responded to reports of a crash on Don Buck Road at around 9:20pm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe can confirm that there are injuries.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two fire trucks and an operational support unit attended the scene. Hato Hone St John said they responded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,51,1558,3944,3549,71,305,10933,685,5158,111,43,139,2551,69,384,18560,23419,1237,3807,5977,96403],"class_list":["post-577335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-car","tag-crash","tag-from","tag-have","tag-injured","tag-last","tag-man","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-night","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-rescued","tag-seriously","tag-two","tag-west","tag-which","tag-wrecked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577335","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=577335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}