{"id":239515,"date":"2026-01-18T11:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T11:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/239515\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T11:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T11:04:09","slug":"sunlive-cyclist-flown-to-hospital-in-critical-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/239515\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Cyclist flown to hospital in critical condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cyclist has been flown to Waikato Hospital in a critical condition following a crash in Pyes P\u0101.<\/p>\n<p>Police were notified at around 1pm after a cyclist was found seriously injured following a crash on Kennedy Rd.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a helicopter was tasked to transport the cyclist to hospital and that the bike appeared to be the only vehicle involved, with a road closure required.<\/p>\n<p>Hato Hone St John said it was notified of the incident at Mortlake Heights\/Kennedy Rd at 12.38pm.<\/p>\n<p>An ambulance, rapid response unit, operations manager and helicopter attended the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne patient, in critical condition, is being airlifted to Waikato Hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A SunLive reader reported that police, ambulance staff and a fire truck were at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne lane was closed to accommodate emergency vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Serious Crash Unit has been advised.<\/p>\n<p>At the scene?<\/p>\n<p>Phone 0800SUNLIVE or email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunlive.co.nz\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"c3ada6b4b0b1acacae83b7aba6b0b6adeda0acedadb9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cyclist has been flown to Waikato Hospital in a critical condition following a crash in Pyes P\u0101.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-239515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239515","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=239515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}