{"id":286867,"date":"2026-02-16T15:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/286867\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T15:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:01:17","slug":"giving-a-bit-too-much-way-one-injured-in-catlins-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/286867\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Giving a bit too much way&#8217;: One injured in Catlins crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person has been taken to hospital with moderate injuries after a single-vehicle crash near\u00a0Purakaunui in the Catlins this morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesman said they were alerted to the crash at about 11.45am on\u00a0Purakaunui Bay Rd, near the site of a popular beach-side campsite.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It appears to be a case of tourists giving a bit too much way when they&#8217;ve encountered an oncoming vehicle,&#8221; a police officer at the scene said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a narrow gravel road with blind corners and it&#8217;s an all too common situation we do get called to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hato Hone St John also attended with two helicopters and a first response unit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has been taken to hospital with moderate injuries after a single-vehicle crash near\u00a0Purakaunui in the Catlins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-286867","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\/286867","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=286867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}