{"id":552953,"date":"2026-07-31T11:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/552953\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T11:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:53:11","slug":"critical-injuries-reported-in-crash-near-mataura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/552953\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical injuries reported in crash near Mataura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person has been critically injured in a crash near Mataura this evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, police said they were called to the scene of the crash on State Highway 93\u00a0(Old Coach Rd) at about 7pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two vehicles were involved in the collision.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One patient was flown to Dunedin Hospital in a critical condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The road will remain closed between Clinton and Mataura\u00a0while the Serious Crash Unit carries out a scene examination.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has been critically injured in a crash near Mataura this evening.\u00a0 In a statement, police said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-552953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552953","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=552953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}