{"id":453781,"date":"2026-05-31T07:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T07:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/453781\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T07:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T07:41:09","slug":"serious-crash-closes-sh25-near-whangamata-one-airlifted-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/453781\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious crash closes SH25 near Whangamat\u0101, one airlifted to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>31 May, 2026 06:50 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">One person has been airlifted to Auckland Hospital after a single-vehicle crash in Coromandel. Photo \/ Bevan Conley<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A person with critical injuries has been airlifted to an Auckland hospital after a crash on State Highway 25 near Whangamat\u0101 this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The serious crash has closed SH25 in both directions between Whitipirorua Rd and Aileen Place, according to the NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police said a<br \/>\n         single car was involved in the crash, which has left two injured, one critically and another seriously.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe critically injured person has been airlifted to Auckland,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 31 May, 2026 06:50 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,11730,11727,51,1558,18509,3549,11728,26755,2241,104,3180,111,43,139,69,5270,4056,1238,90022,13672,1961,61,99704,102],"class_list":["post-453781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-afternoon","tag-airlifted","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-closes","tag-crash","tag-critical","tag-highway","tag-hospital","tag-injuries","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-person","tag-serious","tag-sh25","tag-state","tag-this","tag-to","tag-whangamat","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453781","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=453781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}