{"id":349995,"date":"2026-03-27T04:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/349995\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T04:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:41:08","slug":"serious-crash-waiuku-person-trapped-after-vehicle-rolls-into-ditch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/349995\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious crash Waiuku: Person trapped after vehicle rolls into ditch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">A person was then seen being carried to a rescue helicopter, which landed in a nearby paddock. <\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">Police said the Serious Crash Unit attended and inquiries into the cause of the crash are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John said it responded with one helicopter, one ambulance and one rapid response vehicle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">The spokesperson said one person was assessed at the scene and has been transported to Auckland City Hospital by helicopter in a serious condition.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"One person was flown to Auckland City Hospital after today's incident. Photo \/ Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>One person was flown to Auckland City Hospital after today&#8217;s incident. Photo \/ Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency New Zealand told the Herald two crews attended the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">The spokesperson said they helped remove the person trapped in the vehicle and placed them in the care of St John. <\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person was then seen being carried to a rescue helicopter, which landed in a nearby paddock. Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,51,16717,3549,63701,10933,2944,296,111,43,139,69,4056,1314,47788,25259,3175,1238,23419,165,8528,6845,101129],"class_list":["post-349995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-auckland","tag-becoming","tag-crash","tag-ditch","tag-injured","tag-inside","tag-into","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-person","tag-road","tag-rolling","tag-rolls","tag-rural","tag-serious","tag-seriously","tag-their","tag-trapped","tag-vehicle","tag-waiuku"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349995","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=349995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}