{"id":632001,"date":"2026-10-16T03:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T03:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632001\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T03:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T03:00:09","slug":"one-hurt-as-car-plunges-40m-off-road-near-queenstown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632001\/","title":{"rendered":"One hurt as car plunges 40m off road near Queenstown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The driver of a vehicle that plunged down a bank on Moke Lake Rd near Queenstown this morning has suffered moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesman said emergency services were alerted to the incident about 10.20am after the vehicle left the road and went about 40 metres down a bank between Corsican Dr and Alpine Retreat Rd.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was retrieved from the vehicle with assistance from Queenstown\u2019s Alpine Cliff Rescue team and taken to Lakes District Hospital, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>A Fire and Emergency New Zealand spokesman said two fire crews from Queenstown, a rope rescue team from Arrowtown and a rescue helicopter also attended the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Moke Lake Rd, which is on the Glenorchy side of Queenstown, was closed during the rescue.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driver of a vehicle that plunged down a bank on Moke Lake Rd near Queenstown this morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-632001","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\/632001","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=632001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}