{"id":12876,"date":"2025-02-27T05:54:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12876"},"modified":"2025-02-27T05:54:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:54:26","slug":"police-search-for-driver-after-house-falls-off-truck-in-far-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12876","title":{"rendered":"Police search for driver after house falls off truck in Far North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for information about a bizarre incident involving a house falling off a truck, a blocked road, and a vanishing truckie.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation in the Far North as to what happened ranges from an amateur house-moving attempt gone horribly wrong to an extraordinarily brazen theft attempt.<\/p>\n<p>What is known for certain &#8211; as confirmed by the police and the Far North District Council &#8211; is that a house fell off the back of a truck on Orakau Road, in the Punakitere Valley south of Kaikohe.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesman said the incident came to light at 7.40am on Tuesday when a motorist reported coming across a house blocking the road.<\/p>\n<p>The truck was reported to have jack-knifed and crashed into a ditch some distance from the severely damaged house.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rnztools.nz\/rnz\/image\/upload\/s--VtA911rL--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1740545262\/4KBFDGU_SUP260225HOUSE2_jpg?_a=BACCd2AD\" alt=\"Location, location, location: The house ended up on Orakau Road in the Far North after falling off a truck.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"688\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">Location, location, location: The house ended up on Orakau Road in the Far North after falling off a truck.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0Supplied \/ Far North District Council<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The spokesman said the truck driver was not at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Follow-up enquiries were underway to locate and speak to the driver.<\/p>\n<p>As to the background to the house-moving blunder, police were still in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police have no immediate information to confirm speculation of a stolen house. If anyone in the community does have information regarding any criminal offending taking place, we would always advise people to report this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Information could be relayed to police by calling 105 or Crime Stoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a Far North District Council spokesman said the house suffered extensive damage in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>It appeared the home had struck trees before coming off the trailer about 3.5km from Pokapu Road.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic management was put in place while a contractor widened the road by cutting into the bank.<\/p>\n<p>By mid-afternoon on Tuesday, the road was wide enough to allow trucks to pass, though the house was still on the road and traffic management remained in place.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for information about a bizarre incident involving a house falling off a truck, a blocked road, and a vanishing truckie. Speculation in the Far North as to what happened ranges from an amateur house-moving attempt gone horribly wrong to an extraordinarily brazen theft attempt. What is known for certain &#8211; as confirmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12878,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12876\/revisions\/12878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}