{"id":214890,"date":"2026-01-03T13:45:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T13:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/214890\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T13:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T13:45:22","slug":"sunlive-two-taken-to-hospital-after-city-centre-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/214890\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Two taken to hospital after city centre crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people were taken to Rotorua Hospital yesterday after a car crash in the city centre.<\/p>\n<p>A Fire and Emergency New Zealand spokesman told the\u00a0Rotorua Daily Post\u00a0it received a report of a crash at the intersection of Hinemoa and Fenton Sts in Rotorua at 4.28pm yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman said no one was trapped and it responded with two fire trucks and one operational support vehicle from Rotorua.<\/p>\n<p>It assisted police and Hato Hone St John.<\/p>\n<p>A Hato Hone St John spokesman said two patients were taken to Rotorua Hospital, one in a serious condition and one in a moderate condition.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokeswoman said it was notified of the two-vehicle crash about 4.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>The intersection was blocked and reopened about 6pm.<\/p>\n<p>In Tauranga, emergency services responded to a single-vehicle crash last night.<\/p>\n<p>A Fire and Emergency spokesman said a car hit a barrier on SH29A between Maungatapu Rd and Truman Lane in Tauranga.<\/p>\n<p>It received the report at 6.03pm and sent two fire trucks, one from Tauranga and one from Mount Maunganui, to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>No one was trapped and it assisted police and Hato Hone St John.<\/p>\n<p>A Hato Hone St John spokesman said one patient was in a minor condition and was not taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokeswoman said police were notified just after 6pm and responded to the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were taken to Rotorua Hospital yesterday after a car crash in the city centre. A Fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-214890","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\/214890","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=214890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}