{"id":551088,"date":"2026-07-30T10:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/551088\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T10:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:36:12","slug":"five-injured-two-seriously-after-two-vehicle-crash-near-rotorua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/551088\/","title":{"rendered":"Five injured, two seriously, after two-vehicle crash near Rotorua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five people have been injured, two seriously, after a two-vehicle crash near Rotorua this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the crash occurred on Oturoa Rd in Hamurana at about 3.55pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two people are in a serious condition and three people have received moderate injuries,&#8221; a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The Auckland Westpac Rescue Helicopter responded at around 4pm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are currently transporting two patients in a serious condition to Waikato Hospital,&#8221; a spokesperson told 1News.<\/p>\n<p>The road was blocked as emergency services worked at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five people have been injured, two seriously, after a two-vehicle crash near Rotorua this afternoon. Police said the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69,1756],"class_list":["post-551088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551088","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=551088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}