{"id":626233,"date":"2026-10-10T08:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T08:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626233\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T08:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T08:48:09","slug":"man-critical-after-alleged-assault-in-tararuas-norsewood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626233\/","title":{"rendered":"Man critical after alleged assault in Tararua&#8217;s Norsewood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been airlifted to hospital in a critical condition following an alleged assault in Tararua&#8217;s Norsewood this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the side of State Highway 2 north of Kopua Rd around 10.30am following reports of disorder, Sergeant Ryan Harrison said.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged offenders left the scene in a vehicle. <\/p>\n<p>The victim was airlifted to Wellington Hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Harrison said inquiries were ongoing to identify the vehicle and people allegedly involved. <\/p>\n<p>A police presence remained at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic was being diverted around the scene while officers carried out a scene examination.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who was travelling through the area at the time and saw anything that may assist the investigation was asked to contact police on 105.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been airlifted to hospital in a critical condition following an alleged assault in Tararua&#8217;s Norsewood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-626233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626233","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=626233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}