{"id":13345,"date":"2025-04-22T05:03:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T17:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13345"},"modified":"2025-04-22T05:03:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T17:03:26","slug":"hundreds-lose-power-after-car-crashes-into-pole-flees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13345","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds lose power after car crashes into pole, flees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 1000 households were left without power in the Tauranga suburb of Bellevue after a car crashed into a power pole before fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to Crombie Street just after 5.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency said a car crashed into the power pole before driving off, leaving lines down across the road, cutting power to much of the suburb.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they had not yet located the car or the driver.<\/p>\n<p>Lines company PowerCo&#8217;s website shows the power is off for 989 properties.<\/p>\n<p>Power was slowly being restored and it estimated all would be restored by 9.45pm.<\/p>\n<p>RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 1000 households were left without power in the Tauranga suburb of Bellevue after a car crashed into a power pole before fleeing the scene. Emergency services were called to Crombie Street just after 5.30pm. Fire and Emergency said a car crashed into the power pole before driving off, leaving lines down across the road, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13345","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\/13345","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=13345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13347,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13345\/revisions\/13347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}