{"id":125912,"date":"2025-11-09T07:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T07:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/125912\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T07:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T07:42:09","slug":"police-car-involved-in-collision-while-rushing-to-crash-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/125912\/","title":{"rendered":"Police car involved in collision while rushing to crash scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A police patrol car rushing to the scene of a crash on an Upper Hutt motorway has led to a second collision this evening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Emergency services were called to the scene on State Highway 2 River Rd, between Fergusson Dr and Totara Park Rd in Clouston Park, around 5.50pm after a two-vehicle crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Fortunately, there have been only moderate injuries reported,&#8221; police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;While travelling under urgent duty driving to the crash, a police unit was also involved in a three-vehicle crash on River Rd near Gibbons St.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;There have been no serious injuries, however a scene examination will be carried out, necessitating road closures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Diversions are in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Motorists have been advised to avoid the area if possible, and expect delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police patrol car rushing to the scene of a crash on an Upper Hutt motorway has led&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,42,43,40,38,41,39,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-125912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-accident","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories","15":"tag-wellington"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}