{"id":25295,"date":"2025-09-16T06:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T06:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/25295\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T06:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T06:34:10","slug":"one-critical-one-seriously-injured-in-oamaru-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/25295\/","title":{"rendered":"One critical, one seriously injured in Oamaru crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_3732.jpeg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Emergency services at the scene of the crash in Oamaru. Photo: Andrew Ashton \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Emergency services at the scene of the crash in Oamaru. Photo: Andrew Ashton <\/p>\n<p>Two people were injured in Oamaru, one critically, when a car and motorcycle collided this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokeswoman said the incident happened at the intersection of Ouse St and Thames St (State Highway 1), near Waitaki Girls\u2019 High School at 12.50pm.<\/p>\n<p>A Hato Hone St John spokesperson said one critically injured patient was being flown to Christchurch Hospital and one seriously injured patient flown to Dunedin Hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"2\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_3765.jpeg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"A helicopter arrives at the scene of the crash. Photo: Andrew Ashton \"\/><\/p>\n<p>A helicopter arrives at the scene of the crash. Photo: Andrew Ashton <\/p>\n<p>Both patients could be seen being treated by paramedics before two rescue helicopters arrived.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The spokeswoman said the northbound lanes were closed with diversions in place, and the south bound lanes would be closed to allow the rescue helicopters to land.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those travelling northbound are advised to take Trent St.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Drivers are being urged to avoid the area and the Serious Crash Unit have been notified, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services at the scene of the crash in Oamaru. Photo: Andrew Ashton Two people were injured in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-25295","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\/25295","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=25295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}