A car has gone into the water on Turret Rd, Tauranga.<\/p>\n
A reporter at the scene said emergency services are at the end of the bridge where the road heads to Welcome Bay.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can see flashing lights. Traffic is moving, but very slowly. Traffic is still moving coming from the other side.\u201d<\/p>\n
A police spokesperson said a vehicle has gone off the road at the bridge, northbound.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt appears the driver may have had a medical event.\u201d<\/p>\n
A police officer at the scene told SunLive a male driver of the vehicle was taken to Tauranga Hospital.<\/p>\n
The cause of the crash was being investigated.<\/p>\n
A Rowe Motors tow truck has just arrived on the scene.<\/p>\n
Hato Hone St John was notified of this crash at 10.26am and responded with one ambulance and two rapid response vehicles.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne patient was assessed at the scene and was taken to Tauranga Hospital in a serious condition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A car has gone into the water on Turret Rd, Tauranga. A reporter at the scene said emergency…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-197178","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\/197178","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=197178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}