{"id":181438,"date":"2025-12-13T06:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T06:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/181438\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T06:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T06:10:09","slug":"dirt-bike-rider-seriously-hurt-in-twizel-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/181438\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirt bike rider &#8216;seriously hurt&#8217; in Twizel crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person has been airlifted to hospital after they collided with a car while on a dirt bike near Twizel, police say.<\/p>\n<p>The Otago Daily Times understands a 12-year-old boy was riding the bike.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesman said officers responded to the crash in Tekapo-Twizel Rd (State Highway 8), between Old Iron Bridge Rd and Max Smith Dr, about 1.20pm today.<\/p>\n<p>He said a dirt bike collided with a car and a helicopter had to take a patient to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Hato Hone St John said it sent one ambulance, a helicopter and one PRIME vehicle to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our crews assessed and treated one patient who was airlifted to Christchurch Hospital in a serious condition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency crews from\u00a0Twizel also attended.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic management was in place for a time, but the road was clear by 3.20pm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/news\/national\/mailto:mark.john@odt.co.nz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mark.john@odt.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person has been airlifted to hospital after they collided with a car while on a dirt bike&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-181438","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\/181438","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=181438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}