A Hato Hone St John paramedic and an LPG delivery driver have been seriously injured in a crash on State Highway 1, north of Levin.
St John area operations manager Gareth Collings said a rapid-response vehicle was caught up in the crash, which happened at 10.40am near Poroutawhao yesterday.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2018The paramedic in the rapid-response unit and the driver of the other vehicle were both treated for serious injuries and transported to Palmerston North Hospital by ambulance.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Workers on a nearby site told RNZ they saw a the ambulance travelling north with flashing lights moments before the collision.<\/p>\n
St John confirmed the rapid-response vehicle involved was on its way to another incident “under lights and sirens”.<\/p>\n
Lights and sirens are used for call-outs that are “immediately life threatening or time critical” according to St John’s website.<\/p>\n
“Our thoughts are with those impacted by this incident and we are offering support to our people who were involved,” Collings said.<\/p>\n
St John would be \u2018\u2018supporting police\u2019\u2019 investigating the cause of the crash.<\/p>\n
Genesis Energy spokesman Ed Hyde confirmed one of its LPG delivery drivers was involved in the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Genesis has another vehicle on the way to the scene to collect the LPG cylinders and we will work with emergency services to make the site safe.”<\/p>\n
A reporter at the scene said workers unloaded household gas canisters from the bed of a smashed-up truck outside Lewis Farms on SH1.<\/p>\n
The truck has lost its front wheels and the damaged cab was resting on the ground.<\/p>\n
More than 100 vehicles were backed up at a cordon before traffic was allowed through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Hato Hone St John paramedic and an LPG delivery driver have been seriously injured in a crash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-317489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317489","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=317489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}