One person has died and three are injured following a serious crash involving three vehicles in North Otago.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to the collision near the intersection of Mile Flat Rd and State Highway 1 (Herbert-Hampden Road) about 2.15pm today.<\/p>\n
Rescue helicopters were sent to the scene, about\u00a044km south of Oamaru.<\/p>\n
In a statement tonight, police confirmed that one person had died.<\/p>\n
“Despite the best efforts of emergency personnel, one person was sadly pronounced deceased at the scene.”<\/p>\n
Police said another person had suffered\u00a0critical injuries and were being treated at hospital. Two others had minor injuries.<\/p>\n
Hato Hone St John said ambulance staff treated two patients and\u00a0transported them to Dunedin Hospital via helicopters – one in a serious condition, the other in a minor condition.<\/p>\n
A reporter at the scene mid-afternoon 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
Traffic was significantly backed up north of Hampden, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There was a large emergency services presence including two helicopters, two ambulances, three fire trucks and four police cars.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0highway\u00a0between Hampden and Oamaru was closed about 3.10pm and reopened by 9.10pm, the NZ Transport Agency\/Waka Kotahi advised.<\/p>\n
The Serious Crash Unit attended and police said they were investigating the circumstances of the crash.<\/p>\n
– Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has died and three are injured following a serious crash involving three vehicles in North Otago.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-405261","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\/405261","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=405261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}