{"id":234603,"date":"2026-01-15T12:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/234603\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T12:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:37:10","slug":"helicopters-ambulances-sent-to-crash-in-far-norths-waipapakauri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/234603\/","title":{"rendered":"Helicopters, ambulances sent to crash in Far North&#8217;s Waipapakauri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4O8L39G_image_crop_40666\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" alt=\"A St John New Zealand ambulance\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nSt John sent a number of vehicles to the scene.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied \/ St John\n<\/p>\n<p>At least seven people are injured after a two-vehicle crash on State Highway 1 in the Far North.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were alerted to the incident in the small settlement of Waipapakauri at about 4.40pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Police, as well as two helicopters, two ambulances, two St John rapid response units and an operations manager responded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this stage three people are in a serious condition and four people are in a moderate condition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of those injured will be airlifted to hospital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>State Highway 1 has now reopened after earlier being closed in both directions.<\/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":"St John sent a number of vehicles to the scene. Photo: Supplied \/ St John At least seven&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71451,"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-234603","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\/234603","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=234603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}