{"id":6318,"date":"2023-07-10T08:23:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T20:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6318"},"modified":"2023-07-10T08:23:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T20:23:58","slug":"police-car-involved-in-dramatic-crash-in-auckland-during-overnight-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6318","title":{"rendered":"Police car involved in dramatic crash in Auckland during overnight pursuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A police car has been involved in a crash in Auckland overnight &#8211; taking out a light pole and smashing into a bus stop &#8211; during a pursuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services were called to the scene on Great South Rd, in Epsom, about 12.30am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police confirmed the crash happened during a pursuit after an officer spotted a vehicle that had been involved in previous fleeing driver incidents, which did not have a current vehicle registration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cPolice activated their lights and sirens and signalled for the vehicle to stop,\u201d a spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__ad-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ad ad-container has-text ad-rectangle tw-mx-auto\" data-test-ui=\"ad\">\u201cThe driver has refused to stop and Police have initiated a pursuit.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">The vehicle involved had been heading north along Great South Rd, towards Newmarket, when it was spotted by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cAs the cars were approaching Market Rd, both the fleeing driver and the police vehicle crossed onto the flush media to pass a member of the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThe police car has then been forced to take evasive action to avoid striking a raised centre island and, unfortunately, lost control and collided with a bus shelter and power pole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE NZ HERALD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A police car has been involved in a crash in Auckland overnight &#8211; taking out a light pole and smashing into a bus stop &#8211; during a pursuit. Emergency services were called to the scene on Great South Rd, in Epsom, about 12.30am. Police confirmed the crash happened during a pursuit after an officer spotted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6318","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\/6318","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=6318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6320,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318\/revisions\/6320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}