{"id":488710,"date":"2026-06-21T17:35:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/488710\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T17:35:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:35:29","slug":"person-dies-in-two-vehicle-crash-on-sh1-near-hunterville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/488710\/","title":{"rendered":"Person dies in two-vehicle crash on SH1 near Hunterville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Three people have been injured in a two-vehicle crash on State Highway 1 near Hunterville this afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Emergency services were called to the crash near the intersection of Vinegar Hill Rd at around 1.10pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">One person died at the scene, while three others were treated for moderate injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">SH1 was closed while emergency services worked at the scene but had since reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;We wish to thank motorists for their patience while the road was closed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">St John responded with two ambulances, a rapid response unit, a first response unit, a manager, and a helicopter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Our crews assessed and treated one patient in a moderate condition and one patient in a minor condition at the scene. A third patient in a moderate condition was transported to Palmerston North Hospital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Fire and Emergency NZ responded with crews from Hunterville, Mangaweka and Marton. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people have been injured in a two-vehicle crash on State Highway 1 near Hunterville this afternoon. Emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,31044,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-488710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/488710","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=488710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}