{"id":571964,"date":"2026-08-17T19:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T19:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/571964\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T19:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T19:00:22","slug":"police-name-clara-apiata-39-as-person-killed-in-waimangu-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/571964\/","title":{"rendered":"Police name Clara Apiata, 39, as person killed in Waimangu crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Hato Hone St John spokesman said three ambulances and an operations manager were sent to the crash. <\/p>\n

The Greenlea Rescue Helicopter responded to the crash and airlifted a seriously injured patient to hospital.<\/p>\n

Two other people with serious injuries were taken to Rotorua Hospital by ambulance.<\/p>\n

Two others with moderate and minor injuries were also taken to Rotorua Hospital.<\/p>\n

Seven other people were assessed by ambulance staff but did not need to go to hospital, the spokesman said. <\/p>\n

The fatal crash was the third serious crash within a few kilometres of the same intersection in five days<\/p>\n

The day before, one person was airlifted to Waikato Hospital<\/a> after a vehicle hit a tree on SH38, near Rainbow Rd, just after 1.30pm.<\/p>\n

On August 7, a person was taken to Rotorua Hospital in serious condition following a crash involving a ute and truck on SH5<\/a>, just south of the SH38 intersection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Hato Hone St John spokesman said three ambulances and an operations manager were sent to the crash.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[158361,228014,806,252051,3549,305,78,3375,685,13617,10136,111,43,139,69,4056,675,1327,1240,44097,281900,686],"class_list":["post-571964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-158361","tag-apiata","tag-as","tag-clara","tag-crash","tag-have","tag-in","tag-killed","tag-last","tag-name","tag-named","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-person","tag-police","tag-rotorua","tag-south","tag-twovehicle","tag-waimangu","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571964","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=571964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}