A major central North Island highway is closed this morning after a serious two-vehicle crash left two people seriously injured near Waiouru in the early hours of Monday.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to the crash on State Highway 1 at Waiouru between Shawcroft Rd and Access Rd No 17 at around 2.55am.<\/p>\n
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Police said initial indications were that there had been serious injuries.<\/p>\n
St John said it responded with two ambulances, a rapid response unit, a manager, and one helicopter.<\/p>\n
“Our crews accessed and treated two patients, one in a serious condition who was airlifted to Palmerston North Hospital, and one in a serious condition who was transported to Whanganui Base Hospital,” a St John spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
Fire and Emergency NZ responded to the crash with one crew from Waiouru, with the trapped occupants now freed from the vehicles.<\/p>\n
NZTA said the Desert Road closed at 3.30am between the intersections of State Highway 49 and State Highway 46. <\/p>\n
“The police serious crash unit is on site and their investigations can take several hours,” an NZTA spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
“Northbound traffic detour via SH49, SH47 and SH46. Reverse for southbound.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major central North Island highway is closed this morning after a serious two-vehicle crash left two people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,42,31044,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-454532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-headlines","tag-manawatu-wanganui","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454532","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=454532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}