{"id":322589,"date":"2026-03-10T14:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/322589\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T14:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:49:11","slug":"sunlive-three-car-crash-partially-blocks-welcome-bay-rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/322589\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Three-car crash partially blocks Welcome Bay Rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A three-vehicle crash sparked an emergency services callout in Welcome Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters from Mount Maunganui and P\u0101p\u0101moa Beach firefighters were called to the crash at the intersection of Welcome Bay and Waitao Rds at 2.45pm.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency New Zealand northern fire communications shift manager Ryan Geen said an initial report was a car-on-car crash with multiple patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrews later arrived and found it was three cars involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice and ambulance are now in attendance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Geen said there was a \u201cpartial road closure\u201d in place.<\/p>\n<p>According to Google\u2019s Live Traffic Reporting, the road is clear but some traffic delays remain.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said they were also called to the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt appears one person has sustained moderate injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Hato Hone St John spokesperson said they responded to the crash with one rapid response vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree patients declined assessment, and one patient was treated at the scene, in moderate condition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A three-vehicle crash sparked an emergency services callout in Welcome Bay. Firefighters from Mount Maunganui and P\u0101p\u0101moa Beach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-322589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322589","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=322589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}