Four people are injured, one critically, after a crash involving a campervan and a car on the Lindis Pass this afternoon expected to close the road for several hours.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to the scene on State Highway 8 between Cluden Creek Rd and Phillips Rd at around 3.05pm on Friday.<\/p>\n
Hato Hone St John said ambulance officers treated four patients, with two airlifted to Dunedin Public Hospital \u2014 one in a critical condition and one in a serious condition. <\/p>\n
Two others in a moderate condition were transported by road ambulance to Dunstan Hospital. <\/p>\n
NZTA extended the road closure at 4.15pm to cover between Omarama and Tarras.<\/p>\n
“At the crash site, road users should follow the directions of emergency services; otherwise, people are encouraged to delay their travel or to take an alternative route.”<\/p>\n
Police said the closure was expected to last several hours as the serious crash unit attends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people are injured, one critically, after a crash involving a campervan and a car on the Lindis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1080,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-604082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-dunedin-otago","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604082","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=604082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}