{"id":218550,"date":"2026-01-05T22:13:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/218550\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T22:13:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:13:06","slug":"far-north-two-car-crash-nine-taken-to-hospitals-13-injured-overall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/218550\/","title":{"rendered":"Far North two-car crash: Nine taken to Hospitals, 13 injured overall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Ambulance staff have treated 13 people after a road accident this morning at Pukenui, in the Far North.  Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Thirteen people were injured &#8211; some seriously &#8211; in a Far North crash involving a truck and a van. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         A spokesperson for Hato Hone St John said the service was notified of the incident at 7.42am and sent three ambulances, a first response unit and three helicopters to the<br \/>\n         crash site on Lamb Rd, Pukenui.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Eight people were transported to Kait\u0101ia Hospital &#8211; four in a moderate condition, and four with more minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Two of the other injured people were flown to Whang\u0101rei Hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Police and Fire and Emergency New Zealand also attended the scene, with two fire engines sent from Houhora. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ambulance staff have treated 13 people after a road accident this morning at Pukenui, in the Far North.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19838,3549,528,42,3274,10933,29819,43,37968,529,428,384,23419,544,19554,102277,61,40,38,41,39,23857,27050,11427,3608],"class_list":["post-218550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-19838","tag-crash","tag-far","tag-headlines","tag-hospitals","tag-injured","tag-involving","tag-news","tag-nine","tag-north","tag-overall","tag-people","tag-seriously","tag-some","tag-taken","tag-thirteen","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-truck","tag-twocar","tag-van","tag-were"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218550","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=218550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}