{"id":454530,"date":"2026-05-31T21:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/454530\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T21:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:31:10","slug":"serious-crash-closes-state-highway-1-near-waiouru-two-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/454530\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious crash closes State Highway 1 near Wai\u014duru, two injured"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two people have been seriously injured in a multi-vehicle crash near Wai\u014duru. Photo \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n

Two people have been seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash in the central plateau, with one airlifted to hospital. <\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to the accident on State Highway 1 at Wai\u014duru, between Shawcroft Rd and Access Rd No 17, just before 3am. <\/p>\n

\n Hato Hone St John told
\n the Herald that two people in a serious condition were taken to hospital, one to Palmerston North via helicopter and the other to Wellington in an ambulance.\n <\/p>\n

Fire and Emergency New Zealand shift manager Shannon Lucas said a crew from Wai\u014duru was working to free one person trapped in a vehicle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11727,1558,1853,18509,3549,305,26755,2241,10933,3180,111,43,139,69,384,34387,1238,23419,13672,1237,44097,206623,102],"class_list":["post-454530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-airlifted","tag-been","tag-central","tag-closes","tag-crash","tag-have","tag-highway","tag-hospital","tag-injured","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-plateau","tag-serious","tag-seriously","tag-state","tag-two","tag-twovehicle","tag-waiuru","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454530","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=454530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}