Four people have been taken to hospital, one with serious injuries, following a crash on State Highway 29.<\/p>\n
At 1.20pm emergency services received reports of a two-vehicle crash near the intersection of State Highway 29 and \u014cmanawa Rd, \u014cmanawa, police said.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson confirmed \u201cone person is reported to have serious injuries\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cTraffic is flowing in both directions currently.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hato Hone St John was notified of this crash at 1.23pm.<\/p>\n
Two ambulances, one operations manager and one rapid response vehicle responded to the scene, a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
Five patients have been assessed at the scene.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne patient has been transported to Tauranga Hospital in a serious condition,\u201d St John said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThree more patients have been transported to hospital – two in moderate condition and one with minor injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n
A Fire and Emergency NZ spokesperson said one crew was called to the crash between a car and a truck about 1.20pm.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll people were out of the vehicle and staff were helping with scene protection.\u201d<\/p>\n
NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi reported the road is blocked.<\/p>\n
In a highway update, the roading agency said caution is advised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people have been taken to hospital, one with serious injuries, following a crash on State Highway 29.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-179582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179582","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=179582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}