{"id":190344,"date":"2025-12-18T17:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/190344\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T17:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:46:08","slug":"serious-crash-on-sh30-near-rotorua-leaves-12-injured-two-flown-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/190344\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious crash on SH30 near Rotorua leaves 12 injured, two flown to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>18 Dec, 2025 05:09 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">The road was closed for a period but has since reopened. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A serious crash near Rotorua has left 12 people injured, with two people needing to be airlifted to hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services were called to the crash between Matahi Rd and Lake Rotom\u0101 at around 10pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A St John spokesperson said 12 people were assessed on the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         One<br \/>\n         person was flown to Waikato Hospital in critical condition, and another was flown to Tauranga Hospital in serious condition.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Two people in moderate condition were taken to Whakat\u0101ne Hospital, and another was taken to Rotorua Hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 18 Dec, 2025 05:09 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17525,11727,3549,75102,2241,10933,7973,101,3180,32295,111,43,139,69,90,384,1327,1238,119079,61,1237,102],"class_list":["post-190344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-17525","tag-airlifted","tag-crash","tag-flown","tag-hospital","tag-injured","tag-leaves","tag-left","tag-near","tag-needing","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-people","tag-rotorua","tag-serious","tag-sh30","tag-to","tag-two","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190344","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=190344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}