{"id":550863,"date":"2026-07-30T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/550863\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T07:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T07:00:09","slug":"rotorua-crash-5-injured-2-seriously-in-2-vehicle-collision-north-of-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/550863\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotorua crash: 5 injured, 2 seriously, in 2-vehicle collision north of city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">Firefighters assisted police and ambulance staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">An operational support unit remained at the scene to help with traffic management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John said it was notified at 3.53pm and responded with two ambulances, two operations managers, two helicopters and a rapid response unit.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Oturoa Rd north of Rotorua.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Oturoa Rd north of Rotorua.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">Two people with serious injuries were flown to Waikato Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">Three others suffered minor injuries, with one taken by road to Rotorua Hospital, one flown to Waikato Hospital and one treated at the scene without requiring transport. <\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">A spokesperson for Auckland Westpac Rescue Helicopters said its crew was tasked to Hamurana, Rotorua, alongside Tauranga Air 1 at 4pm to assist at a two-car motor vehicle accident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe are currently transporting two patients in a serious condition to Waikato Hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters assisted police and ambulance staff. An operational support unit remained at the scene to help with traffic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[188541,74,11730,1558,2199,34094,3549,1342,305,42,78,10933,3180,43,529,1118,384,1327,23419,1961,40,38,41,39,44097],"class_list":["post-550863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-2vehicle","tag-after","tag-afternoon","tag-been","tag-city","tag-collision","tag-crash","tag-five","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-injured","tag-near","tag-news","tag-north","tag-of","tag-people","tag-rotorua","tag-seriously","tag-this","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-twovehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550863","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=550863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}