One person has died and three others have been hurt after a car crashed on State Highway 6 near Queenstown early this morning.<\/p>\n
The single-vehicle crash happened shortly before 4am on Kingston Rd at Kawarau Falls, between the Peninsula Rd and Boyd Rd intersections.<\/p>\n
A police spokesperson said one person died at the scene.<\/p>\n
“Two people in the car had serious injuries, one had critical injuries, while one died at the scene,” the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
One lane had been open following the crash, however police said the serious crash unit was now in attendance, and the road was expected to close for a time.<\/p>\n
Motorists are advised to expect delays and avoid the area if possible.<\/p>\n
Fire and Emergency crews from Frankton and Queenstown were called to the crash at 3.54am, which was logged as a motor vehicle crash requiring rescue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has died and three others have been hurt after a car crashed on State Highway 6…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1080,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-620542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-dunedin-otago","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620542","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=620542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}