{"id":212970,"date":"2026-01-02T10:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T10:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/212970\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T10:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T10:07:06","slug":"waipu-ambulance-crash-leaves-one-person-in-critical-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/212970\/","title":{"rendered":"Waipu ambulance crash leaves one person in critical condition"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cThe other ambulance officer and the patient were not injured as a result of the crash, and the patient was transported to hospital by another ambulance crew. <\/p>\n
\u201cAmbulance staff treated one other patient and transported them to Whang\u0101rei Hospital in a critical condition.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lockie said the damaged ambulance had been taken off the road for repairs.<\/p>\n
A police spokesperson said they were alerted to the crash at about 7.50pm on Cove Rd.<\/p>\n
Emergency services are responding to a crash in Waipu that has left one person with serious injuries.<\/p>\n
The road is closed between South Rd and McLean Rd, and diversions are in place, with it being expected to remain closed for several hours.<\/p>\n
Motorists have been advised to expect delays while emergency services work at the scene. <\/p>\n
The Serious Crash Unit has been notified of the incident.<\/p>\n
Lockie said St John takes the health and safety of the public and their people very seriously and will assist the police with their investigation.<\/p>\n
\u201cSupport will be provided to our ambulance staff involved; our thoughts are with everyone affected by the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe other ambulance officer and the patient were not injured as a result of the crash, and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,11428,9526,1558,1239,3549,15979,11728,78,296,7973,101,111,43,139,69,5270,4056,6845,32320],"class_list":["post-212970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-ambulance","tag-another","tag-been","tag-condition","tag-crash","tag-crashed","tag-critical","tag-in","tag-into","tag-leaves","tag-left","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-person","tag-vehicle","tag-waipu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212970","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=212970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}