{"id":218548,"date":"2026-01-05T22:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/218548\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T22:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:12:07","slug":"13-people-injured-in-crash-in-northland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/218548\/","title":{"rendered":"13 people injured in crash in Northland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4JV8FLH_Screenshot_2026_01_06_101534_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"733\" alt=\"Lamb Road - Pukenui\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nThe crash occurred on Lamb Road near Pukenui.<br \/>\nPhoto: Screenshot\n<\/p>\n<p>More than a dozen people have been injured in a crash involving a truck and a van in Northland.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the scene on Lamb Road, near the town of Pukenui, about 7.45am on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Hato Hone St John said it looked at and treated 13 people in conditions ranging from minor to serious.<\/p>\n<p>It said seven had been taken to Kaitaia Hospital, three in a moderate condition.<\/p>\n<p>But more people are likely to also be taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Three ambulances, one first response unit and one helicopter responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police are also at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The crash occurred on Lamb Road near Pukenui. Photo: Screenshot More than a dozen people have been injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-218548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218548","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=218548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}