{"id":240416,"date":"2026-01-19T02:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/240416\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T02:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:04:11","slug":"tauranga-crashes-cyclist-critical-in-pyes-pa-person-hit-on-te-puna-rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/240416\/","title":{"rendered":"Tauranga crashes: Cyclist critical in Pyes P\u0101, person hit on Te Puna Rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">Meanwhile, another person was airlifted to hospital following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunlive.co.nz\/news\/377081-te-puna-crash--person-flown-to-hospital.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sunlive.co.nz\/news\/377081-te-puna-crash--person-flown-to-hospital.html\">a crash on Te Puna Rd<\/a> around 3.30pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">Police received a report of a car hitting a person  and said one person was taken to hospital in serious condition.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\" Emergency services at the scene of a vehicle crash on Te Puna Road.  Photo \/ Claire Rogers\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/> Emergency services at the scene of a vehicle crash on Te Puna Road.  Photo \/ Claire Rogers<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">The serious crash unit also attended the scene and police said they  finished around 10.15pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice continue to make inquiries into the circumstances of this crash,\u201d a spokesperson said in a statement today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">Anyone with information about either crash could make a report to police online at 105.police.govt.nz, clicking \u201cUpdate Report\u201d, or by calling 105.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">Information could also be provided anonymously through Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, another person was airlifted to hospital following a crash on Te Puna Rd around 3.30pm on Sunday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[36173,29422,11728,23676,3594,78,10933,676,101,111,43,139,69,90,70934,384,4056,675,110589,89506,2642,51519,1227,8690,5977],"class_list":["post-240416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-continuing","tag-crashes","tag-critical","tag-cyclist","tag-hit","tag-in","tag-injured","tag-investigate","tag-left","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-p","tag-people","tag-person","tag-police","tag-puna","tag-pyes","tag-rd","tag-separate","tag-tauranga","tag-te","tag-which"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240416","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=240416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}