{"id":222073,"date":"2026-01-07T21:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/222073\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T21:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:11:10","slug":"makarora-jetboat-crash-injures-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/222073\/","title":{"rendered":"Makarora jetboat crash injures three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-21-10\" data-delta=\"2\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/rescue_helicopter_030124_0.jpg\" width=\"992\" height=\"472\" alt=\"Two people were flown to Dunedin Hospital with moderate injuries. PHOTO: GERARD O'BRIEN (file)\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Two people were flown to Dunedin Hospital with moderate injuries. PHOTO: GERARD O&#8217;BRIEN (file)<\/p>\n<p>Two people have been flown to hospital following a jetboat crash in Otago.<br \/>Emergency services were called to Makarora, in the Queenstown-Lakes district, shortly before 3.30pm yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The injured pair were flown to Dunedin Hospital in a moderate condition.<\/p>\n<p>St John said another person was treated at the scene, but did not need transportation.<\/p>\n<p>Maritime New Zealand said that it had asked the commercial jetboat operator to not repair the damaged boat until it had inspected it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/583446\/two-flown-to-hospital-after-jetboat-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/rnz010126.jpg\" width=\"930\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were flown to Dunedin Hospital with moderate injuries. PHOTO: GERARD O&#8217;BRIEN (file) Two people have been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-222073","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\/222073","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=222073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}