{"id":47104,"date":"2025-09-27T21:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/47104\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T21:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:10:09","slug":"driver-airlifted-to-hospital-after-car-plunges-down-25-metre-bank-in-central-otago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/47104\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver airlifted to hospital after car plunges down 25-metre bank in Central Otago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cc4ace0e-0403-470b-bb3a-ee2caf7cda6e.png\" alt=\"Tom Rose\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/tom-rose\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Rose<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Journalist\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>27 Sep, 2025 07:57 PMQuick 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 left seriously injured. Photo \/ Bevan Conley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A person has been airlifted to hospital seriously injured after their car veered off a rural highway and crashed down a bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services were called to the early morning crash north of Roxburgh on State Highway 8, situated between Waikaia Bush Rd and Eliot Rd, about 7:20am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The single-vehicle<br \/>\n         crash saw the driver come off the rural road at Shingle Creek before plummeting down a 25-metre bank.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOne person has serious injuries and is being airlifted to hospital,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Rose Journalist\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7 27 Sep, 2025 07:57 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[41155,74,11727,1643,1558,3944,1853,15979,6097,19552,26755,2241,78,10933,111,43,139,69,9629,4056,35787,3175,23419,165,61,41156],"class_list":["post-47104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-25metre","tag-after","tag-airlifted","tag-bank","tag-been","tag-car","tag-central","tag-crashed","tag-down","tag-driver","tag-highway","tag-hospital","tag-in","tag-injured","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-otago","tag-person","tag-plunges","tag-rural","tag-seriously","tag-their","tag-to","tag-veered"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47104","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=47104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}