{"id":383857,"date":"2026-04-17T07:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/383857\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T07:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:32:14","slug":"state-highway-2-crash-near-otane-leaves-one-person-critically-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/383857\/","title":{"rendered":"State Highway 2 crash near \u014ct\u0101ne leaves one person critically injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawkes Bay Today<\/p>\n<p>16 Apr, 2026 10:31 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A two-vehicle crash has closed State Highway 2 near \u014ct\u0101ne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Two people are injured after a two-vehicle crash on State Highway 2 near \u014ct\u0101ne, Central Hawke\u2019s Bay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A police spokesperson said emergency services were called around 9.15am today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A Hato Hone St John spokesperson said two patients were assessed at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         One was transported to Hawke\u2019s Bay Hospital by<br \/>\n         helicopter in a critical condition.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">The other was taken to the hospital by ambulance in a minor condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawkes Bay Today 16 Apr, 2026 10:31 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1561,1853,3549,12939,1976,26755,10933,7973,3180,111,43,139,69,5270,384,4056,13672,106822,44097],"class_list":{"0":"post-383857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-bay","10":"tag-central","11":"tag-crash","12":"tag-critically","13":"tag-hawkes","14":"tag-highway","15":"tag-injured","16":"tag-leaves","17":"tag-near","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-newzealand","21":"tag-nz","22":"tag-one","23":"tag-people","24":"tag-person","25":"tag-state","26":"tag-tne","27":"tag-twovehicle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383857","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=383857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}