{"id":435833,"date":"2026-05-20T00:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/435833\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T00:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:15:13","slug":"person-critically-injured-after-vehicle-hits-property-in-matamata-main-road-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/435833\/","title":{"rendered":"Person critically injured after vehicle hits property in Matamata, main road closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BZfdzHgWKkSfWJdsh\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe car was coming really fast and went straight over the roundabout &#8230; it didn\u2019t even slow down.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"BZfdzHgWKkSfWJdsh\" style=\"display:none\">The Serious Crash Unit has been notified, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BZfdzHgWKkSfWJdsh\" style=\"display:none\">NZ Transport Agency said SH24 remains closed between SH27 (Firth St) and Burwood Rd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BZfdzHgWKkSfWJdsh\" style=\"display:none\">Motorists, especially those with heavy vehicles, have been advised to take the SH29 turnoff to access SH27. <\/p>\n<p class=\"BZfdzHgWKkSfWJdsh\" style=\"display:none\">A Fire and Emergency spokesman said firefighters extricated the person from their vehicle before leaving them with police and ambulance staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BZfdzHgWKkSfWJdsh\" style=\"display:none\">Only one vehicle was involved in the crash, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe car was coming really fast and went straight over the roundabout &#8230; it didn\u2019t even slow down.\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,9218,5201,12939,20106,26755,4508,10053,78,10933,296,3242,3120,16768,9062,10497,111,43,139,69,4056,814,1314,25529,33552,210,6845],"class_list":["post-435833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-before","tag-closed","tag-critically","tag-drove","tag-highway","tag-hits","tag-house","tag-in","tag-injured","tag-into","tag-large","tag-main","tag-matamata","tag-moments","tag-mounted","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-person","tag-property","tag-road","tag-roundabout","tag-smashing","tag-through","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435833","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=435833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}