{"id":600735,"date":"2026-09-15T04:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T04:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/600735\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T04:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T04:16:11","slug":"road-closure-one-person-critically-injured-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/600735\/","title":{"rendered":"Road closure: One person critically injured after crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"DsYfyjGuqRwC\" style=\"display:none\">They said police remained at the scene for some time and were photographing the area, so they assumed it was serious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DsYfyjGuqRwC\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John was called to the crash at 1.17pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DsYfyjGuqRwC\" style=\"display:none\">St John said it responded with one ambulance and one operations manager responded to the scene with one rapid response unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DsYfyjGuqRwC\" style=\"display:none\">A helicopter was also en route, but not required. <\/p>\n<p class=\"DsYfyjGuqRwC\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOur ambulance staff treated one patient and took them to Tauranga Hospital in a critical condition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"DsYfyjGuqRwC\" style=\"display:none\">Motorists are being advised to avoid the area and expect delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They said police remained at the scene for some time and were photographing the area, so they assumed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,11730,1558,17163,3549,12939,10933,29819,111,43,139,69,5270,33551,4056,23282,1314,1961,6845],"class_list":["post-600735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-afternoon","tag-been","tag-closure","tag-crash","tag-critically","tag-injured","tag-involving","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-pedestrian","tag-person","tag-ppmoa","tag-road","tag-this","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600735","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=600735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}