{"id":518826,"date":"2026-07-10T06:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T06:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/518826\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T06:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T06:03:08","slug":"shotover-jet-crash-at-queenstown-tourist-spot-leaves-five-with-minor-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/518826\/","title":{"rendered":"Shotover Jet crash at Queenstown tourist spot leaves five with minor injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">Police said support was required to get passengers off, and minor injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">A photographer at the scene said a Shotover Jet boat was involved in the accident. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"A jetboat crashed into rocks near the headquarters of Shotover Jet on Friday afternoon. The photo shows another boat being towed near the scene of the accident.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A jetboat crashed into rocks near the headquarters of Shotover Jet on Friday afternoon. The photo shows another boat being towed near the scene of the accident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">Three fire crews from Frankton and Queenstown are in attendance, and they are currently assisting police and ambulance services. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">St John responded with one ambulance, and the crew assessed and treated five people in a minor condition. Two were transported to Lakes District Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">Shotover Jet have been approached for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">In 2021 five people were injured when a jetboat crashed on the Shotover River. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">In 2019, 10 people were injured after a commercial boat crashed into rocks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said support was required to get passengers off, and minor injuries were reported. A photographer at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1975,11776,3549,15979,2837,1342,189,85458,104,296,28372,111161,7973,39937,111,43,139,69,5353,20930,4204,4062,42310,544,15412,17489,102],"class_list":["post-518826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-at","tag-busy","tag-crash","tag-crashed","tag-during","tag-five","tag-holiday","tag-hotspot","tag-injuries","tag-into","tag-jet","tag-jetboat","tag-leaves","tag-minor","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-period","tag-queenstown","tag-rocks","tag-school","tag-shotover","tag-some","tag-spot","tag-tourist","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518826","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=518826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}