{"id":501875,"date":"2026-06-30T00:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/501875\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T00:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:35:14","slug":"napier-roadworks-crash-leaves-1-person-seriously-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/501875\/","title":{"rendered":"Napier roadworks crash leaves 1 person seriously injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">The works started in January and include the restriction of up to 300 metres of the Alpers Terrace-Hyderabad Rd sector of Taradale Rd (State Highway 51) to just the eastbound lane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">A resident told Hawke\u2019s Bay Today he heard the cars skidding and hitting the fence.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"One of the two cars that crashed into excavations at roadworks on State Highway 1 Taradale Rd, Napier, on Monday night. The digger was used to remove the car.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>One of the two cars that crashed into excavations at roadworks on State Highway 1 Taradale Rd, Napier, on Monday night. The digger was used to remove the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">He went outside and called emergency services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">It appeared occupants were out of the vehicles \u201cbut everyone was screaming\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">One vehicle had nosed into the excavation, possibly glancing a digger bucket on the way.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\" The Herrick St-Taradale Rd culvert works site the morning after Monday night's incident in which two cars left the restricted lane on Taradale Rd and crashed through the fencing. Photo \/ Doug Laing\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/> The Herrick St-Taradale Rd culvert works site the morning after Monday night&#8217;s incident in which two cars left the restricted lane on Taradale Rd and crashed through the fencing. Photo \/ Doug Laing<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe [other] one was right on the edge ready to fall,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">He said there was \u201cdrizzle\u201d at the time and he often hears skidding as vehicles hit and accelerate out of a dip in the road at the roadworks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Doug Laing is a Hawke\u2019s Bay Today reporter based in Napier, born into a lifestyle of journalism and this week marks 53 years in the newspaper and media industry, in Wairarapa, Wellington and Hawke\u2019s Bay.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The works started in January and include the restriction of up to 300 metres of the Alpers Terrace-Hyderabad&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23485,3549,17898,15211,250568,1888,250567,42,10933,2205,7973,661,1329,3607,43,4056,3109,39574,312,1439,23419,18988,8229,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-501875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-bottom","tag-crash","tag-didnt","tag-drivers","tag-excavation","tag-first","tag-fortunate","tag-headlines","tag-injured","tag-involved","tag-leaves","tag-major","tag-member","tag-napier","tag-news","tag-person","tag-public","tag-roadworks","tag-says","tag-scene","tag-seriously","tag-sites","tag-they","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501875","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=501875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}