{"id":208549,"date":"2025-12-30T15:59:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/208549\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T15:59:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:59:23","slug":"one-critically-injured-after-car-plunges-40-metres-down-bank-near-whatatutu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/208549\/","title":{"rendered":"One critically injured after car plunges 40 metres down bank near Whatatutu"},"content":{"rendered":"

A St John ambulance spokesman said on Monday there was a young person in the vehicle taken to hospital with critical injuries.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne other person was treated at the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fire crews from Whatatutu, Te Karaka and Gisborne, and police and St John responded to the crash. <\/p>\n

Earlier that day, firefighters were called to assist a woman trapped in mud in the Taruheru River.<\/p>\n

The incident happened about 2.30pm Sunday, in Gisborne\u2019s Nelson Park.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe woman had been walking her dog, and the dog went for a swim in the river,\u201d a senior station officer said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe animal became stuck in the mud, and when the woman went to rescue it, she became trapped in the mud too.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother person with the woman raised the alarm and called for help.\u201d<\/p>\n

A couple of firefighters went into the river and pulled her out.<\/p>\n

The dog was able to get out of the mud on its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A St John ambulance spokesman said on Monday there was a young person in the vehicle taken to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24041,74,1643,3944,11728,12939,7557,6097,12506,10933,104,101,36660,3180,111,43,139,2551,69,5270,4056,34864,35787,10809,8229,3608,127168,102],"class_list":["post-208549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-24041","tag-after","tag-bank","tag-car","tag-critical","tag-critically","tag-district","tag-down","tag-gisborne","tag-injured","tag-injuries","tag-left","tag-metres","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-night","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-person","tag-plunged","tag-plunges","tag-sunday","tag-they","tag-were","tag-whatatutu","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208549","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=208549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}