{"id":874,"date":"2021-08-31T22:52:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T22:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=874"},"modified":"2021-08-31T22:52:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T22:52:14","slug":"two-die-in-car-crash-in-west-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=874","title":{"rendered":"Two die in car crash in West Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have died and another person is in critical condition in hospital after a car crashed into a power pole in Henderson.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \">\n<div style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/assets\/news_crops\/14561\/eight_col_large_2V9A3075_g.jpg?1470899472\" alt=\"A police car outside a cordon in South Auckland\" width=\"620\" height=\"387\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: RNZ<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Police said officers saw a car travelling speeding on Henderson Valley Road at 12.38am, and did a U-turn but did not activate lights and sirens.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Inspector Kevin McNaughton from the Waitemat\u0101 CIB said the vehicle continued along Henderson Valley Road at speed, some distance from the officers.<\/p>\n<p>Police found the vehicle, which appeared to have its lights turned off, crashed into a power pole further along Henderson Valley Road, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The officers attempted to provide first aid but two people died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Another person is in a critical condition and one person is in a stable condition in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Henderson Valley Road remains closed due to damaged powerlines.<\/p>\n<p>A scene examination has been carried out with the Serious Crash Unit at the site, and the IPCA has been notified.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Via RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have died and another person is in critical condition in hospital after a car crashed into a power pole in Henderson. Police said officers saw a car travelling speeding on Henderson Valley Road at 12.38am, and did a U-turn but did not activate lights and sirens. Detective Inspector Kevin McNaughton from the Waitemat\u0101 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","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\/874","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}