{"id":377875,"date":"2026-04-13T20:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/377875\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T20:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:42:08","slug":"driver-survives-100m-cliff-plunge-off-sh25-in-coromandel-firefighters-in-four-hour-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/377875\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver survives 100m cliff plunge off SH25 in Coromandel, firefighters in four-hour rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"AxwMXWBswqbhpKS\" style=\"display:none\">MetService data shows there had been light rain around the time of the crash, which happened on a winding section of SH25 known as Manaia Rd.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The vehicle plunged 100m off the side of SH25, close to this section of the highway which is shut due to weather damage.  Photo \/ NZTA\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The vehicle plunged 100m off the side of SH25, close to this section of the highway which is shut due to weather damage.  Photo \/ NZTA<\/p>\n<p class=\"AxwMXWBswqbhpKS\" style=\"display:none\">Crews were first called at 12.53am, with the first arriving half an hour later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AxwMXWBswqbhpKS\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency New Zealand sent a rope rescue team from Hamilton along with crews from Coromandel, Manaia Rural, Tapu, Thames and Tairua, northern shift manager Ryan Geen said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AxwMXWBswqbhpKS\" style=\"display:none\">The Level 3 ropes team rescued the person from the vehicle and handed them over to paramedics at 4.47am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AxwMXWBswqbhpKS\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John sent an ambulance and a helicopter and treated one person in a moderate condition, a spokesman said. They were expected to be flown to either to Auckland or Waikato Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AxwMXWBswqbhpKS\" style=\"display:none\">The crash happened just south of a closed-off section of SH25, which was damaged in the wild weather caused by Cyclone Vaianu over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AxwMXWBswqbhpKS\" style=\"display:none\">Photos posted by the NZ Transport Agency show subsidence in parts of SH25, which is cut into a steep tree-lined hillside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AxwMXWBswqbhpKS\" 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":"MetService data shows there had been light rain around the time of the crash, which happened on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45186,74,1643,167052,12636,22506,15979,6097,19552,7572,105422,78,111,43,139,69,6662,6507,4056,54323,8527,1314,3175,90022,35635,9348,33140,165,6845],"class_list":{"0":"post-377875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-100m","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-bank","11":"tag-careened","12":"tag-cliff","13":"tag-coromandel","14":"tag-crashed","15":"tag-down","16":"tag-driver","17":"tag-firefighters","18":"tag-fourhour","19":"tag-in","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-off","25":"tag-overnight","26":"tag-person","27":"tag-plunge","28":"tag-rescue","29":"tag-road","30":"tag-rural","31":"tag-sh25","32":"tag-steep","33":"tag-survived","34":"tag-survives","35":"tag-their","36":"tag-vehicle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377875","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=377875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}