{"id":356760,"date":"2026-03-31T12:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/356760\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T12:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:08:10","slug":"person-taken-to-hawkes-bay-hospital-in-serious-condition-after-ute-flips-in-2-vehicle-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/356760\/","title":{"rendered":"Person taken to Hawke\u2019s Bay Hospital in serious condition after ute flips in 2-vehicle crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">A third person was taken to hospital in a serious condition, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">A woman close to the injured person said on social media they had been hurt by an airbag, but had recovered and were released from hospital the same night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">Police were on Tuesday unable to confirm social media reports that a medical event had occurred prior to the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">A Fire and Emergency New Zealand spokesman said three trucks were called to the scene, two from Napier and one from Taradale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">The crash came the same day as a New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union (NZPFU) strike, the 22nd time NZPFU has taken strike action, but did not occur at the time of the strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A third person was taken to hospital in a serious condition, the spokesman said. A woman close to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[188541,74,11428,1561,3526,1239,3549,124645,1976,2241,78,101,3607,111,43,139,69,4056,66146,1238,19554,61,44097,35538,6923],"class_list":["post-356760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-2vehicle","tag-after","tag-ambulance","tag-bay","tag-clinicians","tag-condition","tag-crash","tag-flips","tag-hawkes","tag-hospital","tag-in","tag-left","tag-napier","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-person","tag-roof","tag-serious","tag-taken","tag-to","tag-twovehicle","tag-ute","tag-what"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356760","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=356760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}