{"id":360499,"date":"2026-04-02T16:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/360499\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:01:14","slug":"emergency-services-at-serious-central-otago-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/360499\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency services at serious Central Otago crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_2358.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Traffic management is put in place at the crash site. Photo: Julie Asher\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Traffic management is put in place at the crash site. Photo: Julie Asher<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services are at the scene of a serious crash where a car has gone over a bank near Ettrick.<\/p>\n<p>Police were notified of a single vehicle crash in Moa Flat Rd about 11.20am today.<\/p>\n<p>A Fire and Emergency NZ spokesman said crews were alerted by police after reports of a car over a cliff.<\/p>\n<p>Roxburgh and Millers Flat brigades attended to the scene near Ettrick and found a car over a bank.<\/p>\n<p>Hato Hone St John sent a rapid response unit, one operations manager and one PRIME responder attended the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police were also called around 1.10pm to a single vehicle crash on Rongahere Road near Beaumont.<\/p>\n<p>There are no blockages to the road and no serious injuries reported, a spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers were also warned to expect delays on State Highway 8 after a crash blocked the route between Omarama and Tarras.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The road reopened around 2pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traffic management is put in place at the crash site. Photo: Julie Asher Emergency services are at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-360499","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\/360499","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=360499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}