{"id":402728,"date":"2026-04-29T05:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/402728\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T05:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:21:17","slug":"three-hurt-in-campervan-crash-near-wanaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/402728\/","title":{"rendered":"Three hurt in campervan crash near W\u0101naka"},"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\/img_4266.jpg\" width=\"2983\" height=\"1588\" alt=\"Emergency services at the scene of the crash. Photo: Evie Sinclair\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Emergency services at the scene of the crash. Photo: Evie Sinclair<\/p>\n<p>Three people suffered moderate injuries in a\u00a0campervan crash outside W\u0101naka which blocked the highway in both directions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A police spokeswoman said emergency services were notified at 2pm of the two-car crash on the W\u0101naka-Luggate Highway, near the intersection with Ballantyne Rd.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Hato Hone St John spokesman said two ambulances responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics assessed three people in a moderate condition.<\/p>\n<p>A campervan could be seen lying on its side in a ditch on the side of State Highway 6.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The highway was fully reopened at 4.10pm, NZTA Waka Kotahi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services at the scene of the crash. Photo: Evie Sinclair Three people suffered moderate injuries in a\u00a0campervan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-402728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402728","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=402728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}