An electric Auckland Transport bus has crashed spectacularly into a New Lynn bus and train station this afternoon \u2013 with concerns over smoke coming from batteries on the vehicle.<\/p>\n
An Auckland Transport spokesperson told 1News emergency services were on scene following the crash.<\/p>\n
“We are working with emergency services to make the area safe.”<\/p>\n
Fire and Emergency New Zealand said it was called to a bus crashing into the New Lynn Station at 4.45pm.<\/p>\n
“We have two crews in attendance \u2013 one from Glen Eden and one from Avondale. We are monitoring the batteries, which are smoking.”<\/p>\n
A witness at the scene told 1News they heard a smash from the crash, followed by a “loud pop” coming from the area.<\/p>\n
They then saw smoke coming from the top of the bus as passengers disembarked.<\/p>\n
The witness added about 10 buses were backed up along the road behind the crash.<\/p>\n
Hato Hone St John said it was notified of the incident and responded with two ambulances.<\/p>\n
One patient was treated at the scene and did not require transportation to hospital, it said.<\/p>\n
Auckland Transport said there would be disruptions to timetabled services in the area.<\/p>\n
Route 18 buses would be detoured through Memorial Dr, Rankin Ave, and Clark St.<\/p>\n
Routes 14, 18, 152 and 154 would all stop and end their trips from New Lynn bus station stop E until further notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An electric Auckland Transport bus has crashed spectacularly into a New Lynn bus and train station this afternoon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1081,51,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-75363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-accident","9":"tag-auckland","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75363","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=75363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}