{"id":490087,"date":"2026-06-22T15:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/490087\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T15:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:59:18","slug":"motueka-crash-driver-escapes-with-minor-injuries-after-tractor-trailer-overturns-in-crash-with-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/490087\/","title":{"rendered":"Motueka crash: Driver escapes with minor injuries after tractor-trailer overturns in crash with car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency shift manager Bailey Wells said crews from Motueka \u201cassisted police and ambulance on scene and they\u2019ve since left\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"A tractor-trailer jack-knifed on the front lawn of a residential property. Photo \/ Cherie Howie\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A tractor-trailer jack-knifed on the front lawn of a residential property. Photo \/ Cherie Howie<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAll persons are out of the vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">Mark Carey Contracting co-owner Anne Carey, whose company owns the tractor-trailer involved in the crash, said the driver is \u201cfine\u201d and escaped with minor injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHe was coming from Riwaka way and coming through the intersection and apparently a car went through the stop sign and connected with his rear tyre,\u201d Carey told the Herald. <\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHe\u2019s fine. He has minor injuries and he\u2019s being assessed in the ambulance at the moment, so yeah, he\u2019s talking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">Carey said the driver of the car was also doing fine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire and Emergency shift manager Bailey Wells said crews from Motueka \u201cassisted police and ambulance on scene and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1558,3944,245767,3549,19552,65803,2241,78,104,39937,175793,111,43,139,69,76379,76808,4056,19554,245766,102],"class_list":["post-490087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-been","tag-car","tag-clipped","tag-crash","tag-driver","tag-escapes","tag-hospital","tag-in","tag-injuries","tag-minor","tag-motueka","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-overturned","tag-overturns","tag-person","tag-taken","tag-tractortrailer","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490087","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=490087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}