Two people have been killed and three others injured, one critically, after a two-vehicle crash in Northland’s Ahipara this morning. <\/p>\n
Police were called to the two-vehicle crash on Kaitaia-Awaroa Rd, approximately 30km southwest of Kait\u0101ia, at around 9.40am.<\/p>\n
“Two people died at the scene, a third person was critically injured,” a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
St John said it sent one manager, two ambulances, and one helicopter.<\/p>\n
“Our crews assessed and treated three patients; one in a critical condition and one in a moderate condition were transported to Northland Base hospital, one patient in a minor condition was treated at the scene.” <\/p>\n
Motorists were advised to avoid the area and expect delays.<\/p>\n
Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) said it sent sent two crews from Kaitaia, and one from Ahipara to the scene. <\/p>\n
“We are on scene extricating one patient and assisting police,” a FENZ spokesperson said. <\/p>\n
The road was likely to remain closed for several hours while a scene examination was carried out. Detours were in place and motorists were advised to expect delays.<\/p>\n
The double fatal crash is the first of the Matariki holiday toll period, which runs from 4pm on Thursday until 6am on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been killed and three others injured, one critically, after a two-vehicle crash in Northland’s Ahipara…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,42,43,1067,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-518758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-northland","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518758","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=518758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}