{"id":656589,"date":"2026-11-10T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/656589\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T12:00:11","slug":"burgerfuel-crash-sikh-leader-pays-tribute-to-three-killed-in-takanini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/656589\/","title":{"rendered":"BurgerFuel crash: Sikh leader pays tribute to three killed in Takanini"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cOn behalf of the community, our condolences are with family, friends at this sad time and the community will be asked for help as police investigations are completed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Singh said he could not yet name the victims.<\/p>\n
\u201cInformation about those who died in this accident can be shared after police investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Three people died during a high-speed crash on Great South Road, where a vehicle has crashed into the Burgerfuel. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward <\/p>\n
Police are continuing to investigate what caused the crash.<\/p>\n
\u201cFormal identification processes are underway and are expected to take some time.\u201d<\/p>\n
BurgerFuel\u2019s head of brand and marketing Nikki Soons previously said its \u201cthoughts and heartfelt condolences are with the families and everyone affected\u201d by the tragedy.<\/p>\n
There was extensive damage to the restaurant\u2019s exterior on Monday, with glass and a broken fence scattered at the storefront and windows boarded up.<\/p>\n
Photos showed the car involved as a mangled wreck.<\/p>\n
Skid marks could be seen on the footpath near the roundabout, about 20m from the restaurant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOn behalf of the community, our condolences are with family, friends at this sad time and the community…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,674,30776,3549,15979,6179,31163,42,78,296,3375,13489,43,10142,20442,384,2572,101122,2935,1240,109187,8229,1529,61,40,38,41,39,20838,3608,1316],"class_list":["post-656589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-building","tag-burgerfuel","tag-crash","tag-crashed","tag-died","tag-diwali","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-into","tag-killed","tag-leader","tag-news","tag-paid","tag-pays","tag-people","tag-president","tag-sikh","tag-society","tag-south","tag-takanini","tag-they","tag-three","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tribute","tag-were","tag-when"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656589","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=656589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}