{"id":643353,"date":"2026-10-28T02:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/643353\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T02:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:06:11","slug":"police-patrol-car-involved-in-three-vehicle-crash-in-whangarei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/643353\/","title":{"rendered":"Police patrol car involved in three-vehicle crash in Whang\u0101rei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/9efb65fe-03d6-4e60-850d-8911700e8a2f.png\" alt=\"Brodie Stone\" 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\/northern-advocate\/author\/brodie-stone\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Brodie Stone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Northern Advocate\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>27 Oct, 2026 11:48 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\">Two people were transported to hospital in moderate conditions this morning after a three-vehicle crash in Tikipunga. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Two people have been transported to hospital after a crash involving a police patrol car this morning in Whang\u0101rei.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A police spokesperson said the three-vehicle crash happened at the intersection of Manapouri St and Paramount Pde in Tikipunga around 10.30am. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cTwo people were transported to hospital in moderate conditions.<br \/>\n         The officers involved were uninjured.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">The crash would be investigated as part of standard police procedure, the spokesperson said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brodie Stone Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Northern Advocate\u00b7 27 Oct, 2026 11:48 PMQuick Read \u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1558,3944,3549,305,2241,78,2205,29819,1304,111,43,139,69,71522,384,675,1961,46403,118974,1869],"class_list":["post-643353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-been","tag-car","tag-crash","tag-have","tag-hospital","tag-in","tag-involved","tag-involving","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-patrol","tag-people","tag-police","tag-this","tag-threevehicle","tag-transported","tag-whangrei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643353","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=643353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}