{"id":352062,"date":"2026-03-28T10:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T10:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/352062\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T10:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T10:06:10","slug":"car-crash-at-beachlands-speedway-dunedin-leaves-one-person-with-serious-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/352062\/","title":{"rendered":"Car crash at Beachlands Speedway, Dunedin leaves one person with serious injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency sent two fire trucks, one from Lookout Pt and one from Brighton volunteer, where crews are currently assisting ambulance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">According to the Beachlands Speedway website, it is night two of a clay track racing event \u2018Modified Thunder\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">The family friendly event has returned after an eight-year break, featuring modified V8 car \u201cchaos\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">The Serious Crash Unit has been notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">Beachlands Speedway has declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/dunedin-speedway-race-car-crashes-over-safety-fence-into-crowd\/M7HAKPY7DVBI3H66IKGUQGT2IM\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/dunedin-speedway-race-car-crashes-over-safety-fence-into-crowd\/M7HAKPY7DVBI3H66IKGUQGT2IM\/\">A car racing on the track in April 2024 catapulted over the safety fence, almost landing on top of spectators.<\/a> No one was harmed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire and Emergency sent two fire trucks, one from Lookout Pt and one from Brighton volunteer, where crews&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1975,186411,3944,3549,6788,10933,104,7973,101,111,43,139,69,5270,4056,38041,1238,23419,37525,102],"class_list":["post-352062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-at","tag-beachlands","tag-car","tag-crash","tag-dunedin","tag-injured","tag-injuries","tag-leaves","tag-left","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-person","tag-racetrack","tag-serious","tag-seriously","tag-speedway","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352062","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=352062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}