{"id":15027,"date":"2025-09-17T13:01:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T01:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15027"},"modified":"2025-09-17T13:01:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T01:01:43","slug":"car-flips-onto-roof-on-central-wellington-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15027","title":{"rendered":"Car flips onto roof on central Wellington street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A car has flipped onto its roof outside Wellington Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The accident is on Riddiford Street &#8211; a major arterial route into the central city &#8211; but the road remains open.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency New Zealand and ambulances went to the scene after the crash about 8.40am on Wednesday.<\/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--xXUuiOlh--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1758056455\/4K0Y0AM_Car_crash_blur_3_jpg?_a=BACCd2AD\" alt=\"A Toyota Prius on its roof after a crash with a VW Golf outside Wellington Hospital.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">Two drivers are understood to have suffered moderate injuries in the crash on Riddiford Street.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0RNZ\/Bill Hickman<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A motorist who stopped to call an ambulance said she saw a vehicle a couple of cars ahead of her &#8220;flying and landing on its roof&#8221; but she could not see what caused the car to flip.<\/p>\n<p>Another witness said the car was not going fast at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>A northbound lane was coned off.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said the crash was reported to them at 8:45am.<\/p>\n<p>The person said reports were that a car had rolled, and hit another car before coming to rest in the cycleway just outside the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>A person in each vehicle suffered moderate injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A car has flipped onto its roof outside Wellington Hospital. The accident is on Riddiford Street &#8211; a major arterial route into the central city &#8211; but the road remains open. Fire and Emergency New Zealand and ambulances went to the scene after the crash about 8.40am on Wednesday. Two drivers are understood to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15027","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=15027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15029,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15027\/revisions\/15029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}