{"id":640351,"date":"2026-10-24T22:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T22:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/640351\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T22:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T22:20:12","slug":"te-puke-highway-crash-person-critically-injured-after-train-and-car-collide-in-paengaroa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/640351\/","title":{"rendered":"Te Puke Highway crash: Person critically injured after train and car collide in Paengaroa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792880412_126_WJBBNFHEO5GXLN5HCNYJJHKXTM.jpg\" alt=\"Herald Reporters\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A person has been critically injured after a train and car collided on a Bay of Plenty highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police said they were called to a serious crash on Te Puke Highway in Paengaroa about 9am involving a vehicle and a train.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One person is in a critical condition, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">The Serious Crash unit has been advised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Te Puke Highway will briefly close between Pah Rd and Showgrounds Rd while a helicopter arrives to assist the injured person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,95,1558,3944,28647,28649,3549,12939,26755,78,10933,111,43,139,69,112750,4056,1562,46601,8690,11685],"class_list":["post-640351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-and","tag-been","tag-car","tag-collide","tag-collided","tag-crash","tag-critically","tag-highway","tag-in","tag-injured","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-paengaroa","tag-person","tag-plenty","tag-puke","tag-te","tag-train"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640351","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=640351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}