{"id":14297,"date":"2025-07-16T05:21:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T17:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14297"},"modified":"2025-07-16T05:21:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T17:21:51","slug":"emergency-services-at-scene-of-serious-crash-in-rural-south-aucklands-waiuku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14297","title":{"rendered":"Emergency services at scene of serious crash in rural South Auckland&#8217;s Waiuku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three people have died after a car ended up in a body of water on Masters Rd in Waiuku.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the crash happened at 3.30pm and all three people died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We acknowledge that this is tragic news for the tight-knit community in Waiuku,&#8221; a spokesperson said.<\/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--zR_Us8sL--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1752563652\/4K47NWX_0Z9A8932_jpg?_a=BACCd2AD\" alt=\"Waiuku triple fatality\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">Masters Road was close as the Serious Crash Unit investigated.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0RNZ\/Marika Khabazi<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hato Hone St John said two helicopters, an ambulance, and a rapid response vehicle all responded to the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Masters Road is closed between Kidd Road and Waiuku Road.<\/p>\n<p>St John says two operations managers also resonded.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said the Serious Crash Unit was at the scene and would carry out an investigation to figure out what happened.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three people have died after a car ended up in a body of water on Masters Rd in Waiuku. Police said the crash happened at 3.30pm and all three people died at the scene. &#8220;We acknowledge that this is tragic news for the tight-knit community in Waiuku,&#8221; a spokesperson said. Masters Road was close as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14297","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=14297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14299,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14297\/revisions\/14299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}