{"id":654951,"date":"2026-11-08T19:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T19:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/654951\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T19:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T19:08:10","slug":"car-crashes-into-block-of-shops-on-great-south-rd-takanini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/654951\/","title":{"rendered":"Car crashes into block of shops on Great South Rd, Takanini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt went past very, very fast. I was like, \u2018What the f***, he\u2019s going way too fast\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">He did not witness the crash itself.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The car crashed into a block of shops. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The car crashed into a block of shops. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">Three fire crews attended the incident and assisted police and ambulance, Fire and Emergency northern shift manager Colin Underdown said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">Locals reported taking a long detour with a stretch of Great South Rd closed off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">Police said the road had since reopened.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"A police photographer at the scene. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A police photographer at the scene. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward<\/p>\n<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">They have not commented on injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding the crash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cFurther details will be provided when we are in a position to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt went past very, very fast. I was like, \u2018What the f***, he\u2019s going way too fast\u2019.\u201d He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,1972,3944,6789,29422,16773,11551,296,685,4507,13620,2190,111,43,139,2551,69,1118,90,2642,13109,51212,50643,1240,11584,109187,180313],"class_list":["post-654951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-block","tag-car","tag-closing","tag-crashes","tag-great","tag-hours","tag-into","tag-last","tag-late","tag-leading","tag-long","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-night","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-on","tag-rd","tag-several","tag-shops","tag-smashed","tag-south","tag-stretch","tag-takanini","tag-takeaway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654951","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=654951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}