{"id":216085,"date":"2026-01-04T08:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/216085\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T08:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:57:08","slug":"state-highway-8-crash-tekapo-road-closed-after-serious-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/216085\/","title":{"rendered":"State Highway 8 crash Tekapo: Road closed after serious injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>4 Jan, 2026 07:14 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Rescue helicopters are responding to a serious four-vehicle crash west of Tekapo this evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The crash happened about 7pm on State Highway 8 between Tekapo Powerhouse Road and Braemar Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Reports indicate that three people have serious injuries, while another person has moderate injuries. Three rescue helicopters have been deployed<br \/>\n         to the crash.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John said the helicopters, along with a road manager, rapid response vehicle, prime doctor, local first responder and three ambulances, were called to the scene about 7pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 4 Jan, 2026 07:14 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,5201,3549,19555,65062,27513,26755,104,111,43,139,69,8527,22704,1314,1238,13672,130516,1961,3807],"class_list":["post-216085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-closed","tag-crash","tag-evening","tag-fourvehicle","tag-helicopters","tag-highway","tag-injuries","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rescue","tag-responding","tag-road","tag-serious","tag-state","tag-tekapo","tag-this","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216085","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=216085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}