{"id":620306,"date":"2026-10-04T12:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T12:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/620306\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T12:10:12","slug":"multiple-people-injured-in-two-car-crash-in-tokanu-near-taupo-state-highway-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/620306\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple people injured in two-car crash in Tok\u0101nu near Taup\u014d, state highway closed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The crash happened in Tok\u0101nu at 2.50pm on Sunday. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n

Fire crews have freed a person trapped in a car following a crash near Taup\u014d that left five people injured.<\/p>\n

Emergency services rushed to the scene of the two-car crash on Tawera St, part of State Highway 41, in Tok\u0101nu, at about 2.50pm.<\/p>\n

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Five patients were assessed at the scene, with three transported to Waikato Hospital in a serious condition and two taken to Taup\u014d Hospital in a moderate condition.<\/p>\n

A Fire and Emergency New Zealand shift manager said one person was trapped in a vehicle but has since been extricated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5201,3549,23364,2079,1342,5504,123079,305,26755,78,10933,101,2510,3180,111,43,139,69,384,4056,13672,1852,1361,305298,8528,27050],"class_list":["post-620306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-closed","tag-crash","tag-crews","tag-fire","tag-five","tag-following","tag-freed","tag-have","tag-highway","tag-in","tag-injured","tag-left","tag-multiple","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-person","tag-state","tag-taup","tag-that","tag-toknu","tag-trapped","tag-twocar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620306","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=620306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}