{"id":212232,"date":"2026-01-01T22:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/212232\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T22:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:44:08","slug":"three-critically-injured-in-serious-crash-near-whanganui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/212232\/","title":{"rendered":"Three critically injured in serious crash near Whanganui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Three people have been critically injured after a serious crash near Whanganui this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police said it received reports of the two-vehicle crash on State Highway 3, south of Turakina, at around 6.05am on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">St John said three ambulances, a rapid response unit, two operations managers and one helicopter attended the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Two patients in a critical condition were transported to to Whanganui by road, and one patient in a critical condition was flown to Wellington Hospital,&#8221; a St John spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The road had been blocked by the crash with diversions put in place at the intersections of State Highway 3 and Whanganui Rd, as well as State Highway 3 and Union Rd.|<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">NZTA said the road was closed between Wanganui Rd and Makirikiri Rd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Follow the directions of emergency services on site,&#8221; an NZTA spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people have been critically injured after a serious crash near Whanganui this morning. Police said it received&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,42,31044,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-212232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-headlines","tag-manawatu-wanganui","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\/212232","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=212232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}