{"id":58144,"date":"2025-10-03T11:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/58144\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T11:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:15:12","slug":"sunlive-car-crashes-into-pole-sparks-local-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/58144\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Car crashes into pole, sparks local power outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power was cut to parts of Ot\u016bmoetai after a car hit a power pole on Vale St.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the crash at 6.30pm Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said one vehicle was involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooks like a vehicle crashed into a power pole, no injuries were reported and no blockages to the road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\" Emergency services were called to the crash around 6.30pm. Photo \/ Supplied\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/C66HPN3AGJDTPB2FWTQGGXPS6U.jpg\" width=\"100%;\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nEmergency services were called to the crash around 6.30pm. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n<p>Powerco said the outage affected 900 properties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPower was restored to 389 customers in 8 minutes, 278 customers within 1.5 &#8211; 2 hours,\u201d a spokesperson said in a statement this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Powerco said 233 customers were without power for six hours and it was restored by 12.34am.<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating the cause of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Power was cut to parts of Ot\u016bmoetai after a car hit a power pole on Vale St. Emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-58144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58144","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=58144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}