{"id":519239,"date":"2026-07-10T12:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/519239\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T12:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:46:09","slug":"jetboat-crashes-into-rocks-at-queenstowns-shotover-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/519239\/","title":{"rendered":"Jetboat crashes into rocks at Queenstown&#8217;s Shotover River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A jetboat crashed into rocks on the Shotover River in Queenstown today.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency NZ was alerted to the crash near Arthur&#8217;s Point at 3.14pm on Friday, responding with two crews from Queenstown and one from Frankton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Upon arrival, no one was trapped,&#8221; a FENZ spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a boat required support to get passengers off and that there were minor injuries reported.<\/p>\n<p>St John ambulances were visible at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know more? Contact us at news@tvnz.co.nz<\/p>\n<p>Located near Queenstown, the 75km-long river is famed for its high-speed jet boat rides.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2021\/03\/21\/multiple-people-injured-after-jet-boat-crash-in-queenstown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KJet boat crashed<\/a> on the Shotover River, leaving five people injured including the boat\u2019s driver. <\/p>\n<p>A commercial boat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2019\/02\/24\/thankful-to-be-alive-tourists-recall-moment-jet-boat-crashes-into-rock-face-on-shotover-river\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">crashed into a rock face<\/a> on the side of the river in 2019, injuring ten people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A jetboat crashed into rocks on the Shotover River in Queenstown today. Fire and Emergency NZ was alerted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1080,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-519239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-dunedin-otago","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\/519239","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=519239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}