{"id":370824,"date":"2026-04-09T07:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/370824\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:22:11","slug":"two-seriously-injured-as-portobello-rd-reopens-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/370824\/","title":{"rendered":"Two seriously injured as Portobello Rd reopens after crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"2\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/rta_portobello_rd.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"405\" alt=\"Emergency services attend a car accident on Portobello Rd near Glenfalloch late this afternoon....\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Emergency services attend a car accident on Portobello Rd near Glenfalloch late this afternoon. Photo: Gerard O&#8217;Brien<\/p>\n<p>Two people have been taken to hospital in a serious condition from a two-vehicle crash which blocked Portobello Road for a period this afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Hato Hone St John spokesman said\u00a0two ambulances and two rapid response units responded to the crash near Glenfalloch Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Three patients were assessed at the scene, with two transported to Dunedin Hospital by ambulance in a serious condition, and one transported to hospital in a moderate condition.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The road has since re-opened, police confirmed just after 6pm.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the scene about 4.25pm, a spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic management is in place and the road is blocked near Glenfalloch.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services attend a car accident on Portobello Rd near Glenfalloch late this afternoon. Photo: Gerard O&#8217;Brien Two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-370824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370824","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=370824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}