{"id":43008,"date":"2025-09-25T18:03:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/43008\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T18:03:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:03:21","slug":"sunlive-tauranga-crash-person-airlifted-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/43008\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Tauranga crash: Person airlifted to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person was airlifted to Waikato Hospital in critical condition after a car and bus crash in Welcome Bay, Tauranga.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the crash on Welcome Bay Rd,\u00a0between Waitao Rd and Walter Ln, at 6.15pm yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency New Zealand northern shift manager Josh Pennefather said one person was trapped after the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Three fire engines and two support vehicles attended the crash.<\/p>\n<p>A Hato Hone St John spokesperson said they sent two ambulances, two rapid response vehicles and ahelicopter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne patient was assessed at the scene and transported to Tauranga Hospital then airlifted to Waikato Hospital in a critical condition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police said inquiries were under way to determine the circumstances of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person was airlifted to Waikato Hospital in critical condition after a car and bus crash in Welcome&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-43008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43008","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=43008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}