{"id":453919,"date":"2026-05-31T10:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T10:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/453919\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T10:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T10:13:09","slug":"serious-injuries-after-car-crashes-into-tree-near-taupo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/453919\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious injuries after car crashes into tree near Taup\u014d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>31 May, 2026 08:58 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\">A car has collided with a tree on a Waikato back road. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A car has crashed into a tree on a Waikato back road this evening, with the occupants suffering serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police said they went to the crash between Tukairangi Rd and Oruanui Rd in Wairakei, near Taup\u014d after 7.25pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cInitial information indicates there are serious injuries,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The road<br \/>\n         is expected to remain closed through this evening and motorists were advised to take alternative routes.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 31 May, 2026 08:58 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1863,3944,15979,29422,19555,104,296,3180,111,43,139,69,41640,1314,1238,43211,1852,1961,15981,1524,102],"class_list":["post-453919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-back","tag-car","tag-crashed","tag-crashes","tag-evening","tag-injuries","tag-into","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-occupants","tag-road","tag-serious","tag-suffering","tag-taup","tag-this","tag-tree","tag-waikato","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453919","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=453919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}