Three people have been injured, one critically, in a two-vehicle crash which has closed an inland Otago highway this afternoon.<\/p>\n
The crash happened at 2.15pm on State Highway 87 near Clarks Junction between Rocklands Rd and Johnson Rd, police said.<\/p>\n
Police initially reported that one person had sustained\u00a0serious injuries, but in an update late this afternoon St John said three people had been hurt.<\/p>\n
One was airlifted to Dunedin Hospital in a critical condition, while two others were taken there by ambulance, one in a serious condition, the other with moderate injuries.<\/p>\n
St John said they responded with two ambulances, one helicopter and two rapid response vehicles.<\/p>\n
The highway was still closed at 5pm, and motorists were asked to avoid the area, or delay their travel.<\/p>\n
The Serious Crash Unit had been advised.<\/p>\n
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– Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people have been injured, one critically, in a two-vehicle crash which has closed an inland Otago highway…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-289502","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\/289502","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=289502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}