{"id":175321,"date":"2025-12-09T11:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/175321\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:43:09","slug":"emergency-services-at-crash-involving-bus-and-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/175321\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency services at crash involving bus and vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency services are at the scene of a crash involving a bus and a vehicle on Wainoni Road this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45774\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45774\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_7577.jpeg.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1178\" height=\"1241\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-45774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo sent to chrislynchmedia.com<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses say the bus was full of children who were seen walking out of the bus.<\/p>\n<p>Footage sent to chrislynchmedia.com shows the bus off the road on to the footpath and into what appears to be a fence.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45773\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45773\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_7576-1.jpeg.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1320\" height=\"1000\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-45773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo sent to chrislynchmedia.com<\/p>\n<p>Multiple ambulances are at the scene along with Fire and Emergency crews.<\/p>\n<p>A St John spokesperson told chrislynchmedia.com they were notified of a motor vehicle incident on Wainoni Road, Avondale, at 15:14 today.<\/p>\n<p>Two ambulances, one rapid response unit, and one operations manager attended.<\/p>\n<p>18 patients were assessed in total.<\/p>\n<p>Three patients, one in minor condition and two in moderate condition, were transported to Christchurch Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining fifteen patients were uninjured.<\/p>\n<p>The crash is between Portsmouth Street and Hampshire Street, a witness said.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canterbury runs the bus service and a spokesperson said \u201cI can confirm a school bus has been involved in a collision on Wainoni Road this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs this is a developing situation, details are limited at this stage.<\/p>\n<p>We are working with the operator to better understand what has happened.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services are at the scene of a crash involving a bus and a vehicle on Wainoni Road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[373,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-175321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-featured","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175321","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=175321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}