{"id":626463,"date":"2026-10-10T14:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626463\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T14:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:48:11","slug":"te-puke-highway-crash-one-dead-another-in-critical-condition-after-car-ends-up-down-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626463\/","title":{"rendered":"Te Puke Highway crash: One dead, another in critical condition after car ends up down bank"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hato Hone St John said it was alerted to the incident at 10.53am and responded with an ambulance, rapid response unit, operations manager and rescue helicopter.<\/p>\n
A St John spokesperson earlier said one patient was treated at the scene before being taken by road ambulance to Tauranga Hospital in a serious condition.<\/p>\n
A nearby resident said: \u201cI heard it happen but didn\u2019t realise what it was. My dogs went bananas.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emergency services are responding to a serious crash on Te Puke Highway with reports of critical injuries.<\/p>\n
After walking to the scene, the resident said the aftermath \u201clooked bad\u201d and they did not want to get too close in case they saw something distressing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe car was suspended in a tree but thankfully it didn\u2019t end up in the river,\u201d the resident said.<\/p>\n
When the Herald called about 12.05pm the helicopter could be heard leaving the scene.<\/p>\n
Flight tracking data appears to show a rescue helicopter at the crash scene today. Photo \/ Flightradar24<\/p>\n
Police said the Serious Crash Unit was investigating.<\/p>\n
The circumstances of the crash and the number of people involved are unclear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hato Hone St John said it was alerted to the incident at 10.53am and responded with an ambulance,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,9526,1643,3944,1239,3549,11728,690,6097,4726,18791,26755,2241,78,101,424,111,43,139,69,5270,46601,1238,8690,165,810],"class_list":["post-626463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-another","tag-bank","tag-car","tag-condition","tag-crash","tag-critical","tag-dead","tag-down","tag-ends","tag-fighting","tag-highway","tag-hospital","tag-in","tag-left","tag-life","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-puke","tag-serious","tag-te","tag-their","tag-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626463","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=626463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}