{"id":396074,"date":"2026-04-24T22:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396074\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T22:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:07:08","slug":"rotorua-crash-person-seriously-injured-state-highway-36-closed-at-leonard-rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396074\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotorua crash: Person seriously injured, State Highway 36 closed at Leonard Rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>24 Apr, 2026 08:07 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\">Police and other emergency services were called to the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A person has been seriously injured in a crash that\u2019s closed a highway north of Rotorua.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cA serious two-vehicle crash has closed State Highway 36 at the intersection of Leonard Rd this morning,\u201d a police spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cThe crash was reported about 5.30am, and one person was taken to hospital<br \/>\n         with serious injuries.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/police\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/police\/\">Serious Crash Unit<\/a> was doing a scene examination at the site, which is near Ngongotah\u0101, 10km north of Rotorua.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 24 Apr, 2026 08:07 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61293,1975,1558,5201,3549,26755,10933,20587,111,43,139,529,69,4056,2642,1327,23419,13672,8475],"class_list":["post-396074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-61293","tag-at","tag-been","tag-closed","tag-crash","tag-highway","tag-injured","tag-leonard","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-person","tag-rd","tag-rotorua","tag-seriously","tag-state","tag-thats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396074","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=396074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}