{"id":308075,"date":"2026-03-01T14:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/308075\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T14:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:38:19","slug":"sunlive-tauranga-two-crashes-four-injured-a-car-ablaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/308075\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Tauranga: two crashes, four injured, a car ablaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency services were called to two separate crashes in Tauranga on Saturday night, including a two-vehicle collision in Mount Maunganui that left one car ablaze.<\/p>\n<p>Police said staff were alerted to the crash on Totara St, between Puriri St and Matai St, about 10.45pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the occupants got out of the vehicles, one of them caught fire,\u201d a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/280226SLSPTotaraCrash02.jpg\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Emergency services responded to a two-vehicle crash on Totara St, Mount Maunganui on Saturday night. \u00a0Photo \/ Supplied.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency New Zealand said it received a call at 10.46pm, dispatching two fire trucks from the Mount Maunganui and Tauranga stations.<\/p>\n<p>Northern shift manager Gareth Lewis said the incident involved two cars, one of which was on fire when crews arrived.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were no persons trapped,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Hato Hone St John said it was notified of the crash at 10.42pm and sent three ambulances, a rapid response unit and a manager to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur crews assessed and treated three patients, who were transported to Tauranga Hospital in a moderate condition,\u201d a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/280226SLSPTotaraCrash04.jpg\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>A car erupted in flames after a two-vehicle crash on Totara St in Mount Maunganui on Saturday night. \u00a0Photo \/ Supplied.<\/p>\n<p>About an hour later, emergency services were called to a second crash in Freyberg St, \u014ct\u016bmoetai, after a vehicle struck a tree.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis said Fire and Emergency received the call at 11.53pm and sent three fire trucks from the same stations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn arrival we confirmed it was a single car crash and there were no persons trapped. We assisted police and ambulance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Hato Hone St John said it was notified of the crash at 11.53pm and sent one ambulance, a rapid response unit, and a manager to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur crews assessed and treated one patient who was transported to Tauranga Hospital in a serious condition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police said the vehicle was towed, and enquiries into the circumstances of the crash are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services were called to two separate crashes in Tauranga on Saturday night, including a two-vehicle collision in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-308075","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\/308075","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=308075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}