{"id":623377,"date":"2026-10-07T14:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T14:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/623377\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T14:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T14:34:15","slug":"critical-injuries-send-dunedin-street-into-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/623377\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Critical injuries\u2019 send Dunedin street into shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A central Dunedin street was closed after a driver was critically injured\u00a0in a two-vehicle crash.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were called to the\u00a0crash, at the intersection of Burlington St\u00a0and Queens Gardens, about 9.50am on\u00a0Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2018One person received critical injuries\u00a0and was transported to hospital,\u2019\u2019 the\u00a0spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p>A police officer at the scene said the\u00a0injured driver experienced a medical\u00a0event as he turned left off Queens\u00a0Gardens and into Burlington St.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The driver hit a stationary vehicle waiting at the traffic lights at the bottom\u00a0of the street.<\/p>\n<p>Access to Burlington St was\u00a0temporarily closed, but the street reopened\u00a0about noon.<\/p>\n<p>report: tim scott\/Photo: Stephen Jaquiery<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A central Dunedin street was closed after a driver was critically injured\u00a0in a two-vehicle crash. Police said they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-623377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623377","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=623377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}