{"id":437246,"date":"2026-05-20T20:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/437246\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T20:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:43:09","slug":"man-critical-after-crash-involving-van-in-red-beach-north-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/437246\/","title":{"rendered":"Man critical after crash involving van in Red Beach, north Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"
Police said the pedestrian, who is from the Whangaparaoa area, remains in a critical condition this morning.<\/p>\n
The driver of the van was uninjured.<\/p>\n
Hato Hone St John sent two ambulances and a rapid response vehicle, and one patient was taken to Auckland Hospital in a critical condition, a spokesman said.<\/p>\n
Photos from the scene show a white van with damage to its front right corner, including a dented bonnet and smashed windscreen.<\/p>\n
The Serious Crash Unit has conducted a scene examination on Whangaparaoa Rd in Red Beach. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward<\/p>\n
A Herald photographer said Whangaparaoa Rd was closed at the intersection with Hibiscus Coast Highway while traffic management crews assisted with closures. <\/p>\n
A specialist crash investigator was examining the scene near the intersection with Tawhana Crescent. <\/p>\n
Whangaparaoa Rd was closed for several hours as officers gathered evidence. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward<\/p>\n
The van involved in the incident was towed and the road reopened shortly after midnight, he said.<\/p>\n
The NZ Transport Agency website shows the road has been reopened.<\/p>\n
The Herald has requested comment from police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said the pedestrian, who is from the Whangaparaoa area, remains in a critical condition this morning. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,13918,51,7972,682,1239,3549,11728,78,29819,685,5158,111,43,139,2551,529,7977,69,15406,17294,11427],"class_list":["post-437246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-apparently","tag-auckland","tag-beach","tag-being","tag-condition","tag-crash","tag-critical","tag-in","tag-involving","tag-last","tag-man","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-night","tag-north","tag-northern","tag-nz","tag-red","tag-suburb","tag-van"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437246","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=437246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}