Emergency services are at a serious three-vehicle crash which is blocking the state highway\u00a0between Hampden and Oamaru in North Otago.<\/p>\n
The crash near the intersection of Mile Flat Rd and SH 1\u00a0was reported to emergency services about 2.15pm today.<\/p>\n
Rescue helicopters have been sent to the scene, about\u00a044km south of Oamaru.<\/p>\n
The highway was closed about 3.10pm, NZ Transport Agency\/Waka Kotahi said.<\/p>\n
A reporter at the scene said what appeared to be a four-door sedan had taken the brunt of the damage and its front-end was “pretty much completely smashed”.<\/p>\n
A white ute on the other side of the road also appeared to have suffered some damage, including to its roof.<\/p>\n
There was a large emergency services presence about 3pm, including two helicopters, two ambulances, three fire trucks and four police cars.<\/p>\n
Traffic was significantly backed up north of Hampden, he said.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
A spokesman for NZTA said road users were urged to avoid SH1\/Herbert-Hampden Rd, or delay their journey.<\/p>\n
People in the area should follow the directions of emergency services at the crash site.<\/p>\n
The Serious Crash Unit have been advised, a police spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n
– Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services are at a serious three-vehicle crash which is blocking the state highway\u00a0between Hampden and Oamaru in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-404357","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\/404357","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=404357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}