{"id":15098,"date":"2025-09-25T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15098"},"modified":"2025-09-25T08:00:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:00:43","slug":"major-central-auckland-road-shuts-as-person-seriously-hurt-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15098","title":{"rendered":"Major central Auckland road shuts as person seriously hurt in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person has been seriously hurt in a crash that&#8217;s closed parts of a key road in central Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>Reporters at the scene described a badly damaged vehicle, alongside an also damaged police car on Victoria Street, between Queen Street and Hobson Street.<\/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--_lcLz4hO--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1758739130\/4K0JDJO_Image_2_jfif?_a=BACCd2AD\" alt=\"The scene of a serious crash on Victoria Street in  Central Auckland on 25 September.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"591\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Kim Baker Wilson<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Police said the two-vehicle crash was reported at about 5.40am near the intersection of Victoria and Albert streets.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Street was closed between Queen Street and Hobson Street.<\/p>\n<p>Police urged drivers to use other routes and said the area may be closed for some time.<\/p>\n<p>Fire trucks were also at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person has been seriously hurt in a crash that&#8217;s closed parts of a key road in central Auckland. Reporters at the scene described a badly damaged vehicle, alongside an also damaged police car on Victoria Street, between Queen Street and Hobson Street. Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Kim Baker Wilson Police said the two-vehicle crash was reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15098","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\/15098","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=15098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15100,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15098\/revisions\/15100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}