{"id":254239,"date":"2026-01-27T13:51:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T13:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/254239\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T13:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T13:51:17","slug":"sunlive-serious-injury-after-sh29-tauranga-rd-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/254239\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Serious injury after SH29 Tauranga Rd crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATED at 1.41PM: One person is reported to be seriously injured after a car and truck collided on State Highway 29.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the crash at 10.35am.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA car and truck had collided at a t-intersection,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne person is reported to have serious injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hato Hone St John said they were currently on scene with one first response unit, one ambulance and one rapid response vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne patient is currently being transported to Waikato Hospital in a serious condition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police said the crash is on SH29\/Tauranga Road, near the intersection of SH24.<\/p>\n<p>NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) reported SH24 was closed off at Te Poi Rd.<\/p>\n<p>A highway alert from the roading agency this afternoon reported the road to be open.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/260127-Highway-Crash.jpg\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Image \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATED at 1.41PM: One person is reported to be seriously injured after a car and truck collided on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-254239","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\/254239","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=254239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}