{"id":396779,"date":"2026-04-25T08:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396779\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T08:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:57:11","slug":"two-seriously-injured-in-upper-hutt-motorbike-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396779\/","title":{"rendered":"Two seriously injured in Upper Hutt motorbike crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4JU8LDT_PolicecarGeneric1_RNZ_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"814\" alt=\"A police car seen behind a cordon as officers attend an incident.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPhoto: RNZ\n<\/p>\n<p>Two people are seriously hurt following a crash involving two vehicles and a motorbike in Upper Hutt in Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to River Road on SH2 just before 10am on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Police said two people are seriously injured and that three others received minor to moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The southbound lane is blocked and diversions are in place.<\/p>\n<p>The Serious Crash Unit is investigating.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: RNZ Two people are seriously hurt following a crash involving two vehicles and a motorbike in Upper&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-396779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396779","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=396779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}