{"id":75120,"date":"2025-10-13T06:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/75120\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T06:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:24:09","slug":"vehicle-on-fire-after-going-over-bank-in-northland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/75120\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle on fire after going over bank in Northland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vehicle has fallen down a bank and reportedly caught fire in Northland this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the single vehicle crash occurred on Whang\u0101rei Heads Road in Tamaterau.<\/p>\n<p>Road diversions were in place on Mackesy Rd and Owhiwa Rd.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists were advised to avoid the area, as road closures may be in place for \u201csome time\u201d, according to police.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6VD7D6YWBZACTM2YXBN7FIKETU.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">(Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>Near the scene, Cherrie Parker told 1News of a &#8220;huge bang and the smell of smoke&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were a few loud explosions and the smell of burning rubber. Traffic is stopped and the road is blocked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said the fire appeared to have since been put out by the fire brigade.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to 1News, Hato Hone St John said it had &#8220;concluded its involvement&#8221; as there were &#8220;no patients&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vehicle has fallen down a bank and reportedly caught fire in Northland this afternoon. Police said the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,42,43,1067,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-75120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-accident","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-northland","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75120","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=75120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}