{"id":77001,"date":"2025-10-14T03:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T03:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/77001\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T03:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T03:38:09","slug":"new-lynn-bus-interchange-reopens-after-crash-investigation-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/77001\/","title":{"rendered":"New Lynn bus interchange reopens after crash investigation begins"},"content":{"rendered":"
AT is investigating the cause of the crash and is working with the bus company while it conducts an internal review. <\/p>\n
The bus crashed into the station about 4.30pm yesterday and smoke appeared to be coming from the battery compartment. <\/p>\n
The bus smashed into a glass veranda that covered a waiting area and damaged a glass wall.<\/p>\n
Smoke was seen coming from the battery compartment of the electric bus after crashed. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n
\u201cI had thought it was actually a big bin fallen from a crane or something,\u201d a witness told the Herald, \u201cit was that loud. She hit it real hard but all the passengers walked off.\u201d<\/p>\n
One person was injured in the incident and treated at the scene. Photo \/ Michael Sprague<\/p>\n
The witness also described it as \u201cthe loudest bang ever heard\u201d.<\/p>\n
Images showed the bus at near right angles to the road, blocking it for other vehicles and with its nose pressed against the building. <\/p>\n
Parts of the bus\u2019 bodywork came off in the crash and left the electric battery compartment on the roof exposed. <\/p>\n
Bus routes were detoured at the time and caused significant delays to services travelling to and from New Lynn. <\/p>\n
AT also said it worked with emergency services to make the area safe. <\/p>\n
Hato Hone St John said they responded to the incident, treating one person in a minor condition at the scene. <\/p>\n
Police said they were investigating and have been approached for further comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AT is investigating the cause of the crash and is working with the bus company while it conducts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,51,11154,30482,5201,3549,42,60020,12898,101,23300,117,43,10715,1854,14777,20789,13655,1361,40,38,41,39,8238,6845,3807],"class_list":{"0":"post-77001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-auckland","10":"tag-begins","11":"tag-bus","12":"tag-closed","13":"tag-crash","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-interchange","16":"tag-investigation","17":"tag-left","18":"tag-lynn","19":"tag-new","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-remains","22":"tag-reopens","23":"tag-section","24":"tag-smoking","25":"tag-station","26":"tag-that","27":"tag-top-news","28":"tag-top-stories","29":"tag-topnews","30":"tag-topstories","31":"tag-under","32":"tag-vehicle","33":"tag-west"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77001","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=77001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}