Five people are injured following a crash at Kawarau Bridge on State Highway 6 \/ Gibbston Highway this morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A police spokeswoman said emergency services were called to the crash at Kawarau Bridge at about 11.45am.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A total of five people suffered injuries in the three-vehicle crash.<\/p>\n
A Hato Hone St john spokesman said two people were seriously injured, one suffered moderate injuries and two more minor injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The two seriously injured patients were flown to Dunedin Hospital while the others were either treated at the scene or taken by ambulance to Lakes District Hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A Fire and Emergency NZ spokesperson said three people were trapped when firefighting crews first arrived.<\/p>\n
Crews from Frankton, Arrowtown and Queenstown responded.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The road was fully blocked in both directions for about 2.5 hours while emergency services worked at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It reopened under traffic management with a 50kmh speed limit at about 2.15pm.<\/p>\n
Motorists are advised to expect delays and take extra care along the route.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Serious Crash Unit has been advised.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five people are injured following a crash at Kawarau Bridge on State Highway 6 \/ Gibbston Highway this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-497826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","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\/497826","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=497826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}