{"id":561549,"date":"2026-08-07T06:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/561549\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T06:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:58:09","slug":"person-trapped-after-ute-and-truck-crash-south-of-rotorua-on-state-highway-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/561549\/","title":{"rendered":"Person trapped after ute and truck crash south of Rotorua on State Highway 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rotorua Daily Post<\/p>\n<p>7 Aug, 2026 03:45 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A ute and truck have crashed on SH5 south of Rotorua. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A person has been taken to Rotorua Hospital in a serious condition after a two-vehicle crash on State Highway 5, Hato Hone St John says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A spokesperson said another person was treated at the scene for moderate injuries after Hato Hone St John responded about 2.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         A helicopter was called<br \/>\n         but the seriously injured patient was taken to hospital by road.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Police said motorists should avoid the highway south of the State Highway 38 intersection in Waiotapu, south of Rotorua.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">The road was closed northbound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rotorua Daily Post 7 Aug, 2026 03:45 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,95,1558,1239,3549,15976,26755,15977,2241,5126,111,43,139,69,1118,90,4056,1327,312,1238,1240,13672,19554,8528,23857,44097,35538],"class_list":["post-561549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-and","tag-been","tag-condition","tag-crash","tag-hato","tag-highway","tag-hone","tag-hospital","tag-john","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-on","tag-person","tag-rotorua","tag-says","tag-serious","tag-south","tag-state","tag-taken","tag-trapped","tag-truck","tag-twovehicle","tag-ute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561549","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=561549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}