{"id":658589,"date":"2026-11-12T10:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T10:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/658589\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T10:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T10:46:11","slug":"takanini-burgerfuel-crash-three-victims-killed-in-south-auckland-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/658589\/","title":{"rendered":"Takanini BurgerFuel crash: Three victims killed in South Auckland named"},"content":{"rendered":"

The restaurant was closed and no one inside was injured. All three occupants of the car died at the scene.<\/p>\n

\"GurpreetGurpreet Singh, 38, Sukhvir Kaur, 29, and her husband Sukhdeep Singh, 33, were killed in the Takanini BurgerFuel crash. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n

Singh previously told the Herald the victims were a husband and wife<\/a> who had married about six months earlier, and their brother-in-law.<\/p>\n

They lived in South Auckland.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe communities are in great shock because this is a huge tragedy that happened here in Auckland,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said one victim was a self-employed businessman \u201cwell-established\u201d in New Zealand. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe was well-settled, came to New Zealand a few years back. But his wife just came six months ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

Family members had spoken to them earlier during Diwali. They had no idea \u201chow this could have happened and what\u2019s gone wrong\u201d, Singh said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are in shock at this stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheThe car crashed over a metal gate and into the BurgerFuel building. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward<\/p>\n

Singh said relatives and friends described the family as \u201cvery lovely\u201d<\/a> and \u201cgood\u201d people. <\/p>\n

Their families have asked for their bodies to be sent to India after formal police identification.<\/p>\n

The local iwi has organised a karakia at the crash scene for Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will do our prayer at the same time and then send the bodies back to India,\u201d Singh said.<\/p>\n

He said the tragedy has caused an outpouring of shock and support from the community. <\/p>\n

\"TheThe scene of the crash on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Car \u2018became airborne\u2019 before crashing into building<\/p>\n

Manurewa-Papakura ward councillor Daniel Newman previously told the Herald \u201cpeople are very sad\u201d about the tragedy, but he remained \u201cconfounded\u201d by the circumstances of the crash. <\/p>\n

Newman said initial information from police to the council suggested the car left the road and \u201cbecame airborne\u201d before colliding with the BurgerFuel building.<\/p>\n

Witnesses estimated the vehicle had been travelling at speeds \u201cway over\u201d 100km\/h in a 50km\/h zone. <\/p>\n

\"WitnessesWitnesses described seeing the car travelling at speeds over 100km\/h before the crash. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward<\/p>\n

A delivery driver told the Herald they witnessed another vehicle almost get hit<\/a> by what they believed to be the same car involved in the crash a few minutes before the incident. <\/p>\n

Newman said the circumstances were difficult to comprehend.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a tough part of town, so you know, people have experienced tragedies in their life, but this is such a sad moment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The restaurant was closed and no one inside was injured. All three occupants of the car died at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,1558,322728,30776,3549,2109,269703,305,78,24307,3375,4754,10136,111,150107,43,139,69,89907,22498,1240,322726,322727,109187,165,1529,8844],"class_list":["post-658589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-brotherinlaw","tag-burgerfuel","tag-crash","tag-family","tag-gurpreet","tag-have","tag-in","tag-kaur","tag-killed","tag-members","tag-named","tag-new-zealand","tag-newlyweds","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-punjabi","tag-singh","tag-south","tag-sukhdeep","tag-sukhvir","tag-takanini","tag-their","tag-three","tag-victims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658589","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=658589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}