{"id":596048,"date":"2026-09-10T12:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/596048\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T12:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:38:10","slug":"two-hospitalised-after-incident-aboard-vessel-at-lyttelton-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/596048\/","title":{"rendered":"Two hospitalised after incident aboard vessel at Lyttelton Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have been seriously injured after an incident aboard a vessel in Lyttelton today.<\/p>\n<p>Canterbury District Command Centre Police Senior Sergeant Hamish Keer-Keer said officers were advised of an incident on a vessel at Lyttleton Port around 11.20am.<\/p>\n<p>St John said it was notified of the incident on Gladstone Quay, Lyttelton shortly before 11am. <\/p>\n<p>Two ambulances, one operations manager and two rapid response vehicles were sent to the scene, and a helicopter which was not required. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two patients are currently being transported to Christchurch Hospital: one in a serious condition and one in a moderate condition,&#8221; a St John spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p>The Lyttelton Port Company said it involved a vessel berthed at the port and crew members.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No Lyttelton Port Company staff were involved.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Maritime NZ said in a statement its staff were at the scene, working to establish what happened. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This information will inform our next regulatory steps.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been seriously injured after an incident aboard a vessel in Lyttelton today. Canterbury District Command&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1081,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-596048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-accident","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596048","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=596048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}