{"id":640701,"date":"2026-10-25T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/640701\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T08:00:09","slug":"two-seriously-injured-in-waitaki-valley-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/640701\/","title":{"rendered":"Two seriously injured in Waitaki Valley crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have been seriously injured in a crash that has blocked State Highway 83\u00a0near Duntroon.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the\u00a0single-vehicle crash on Duntroon-Georgetown Rd (SH83) near the intersection with Ng\u0101para-Georgetown Rd, about 2.20pm on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo people have serious injuries\u201d, a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMotorists are advised to avoid the area while emergency services work at the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Hato Hone St John spokesperson said\u00a0they sent one ambulance, one PRIME vehicle and one helicopter to the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their crews were still at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Fire and Emergency New Zealand spokesperson said they responded three crews who found two people trapped on arrival.<\/p>\n<p>They were freed from the vehicle and\u00a0the scene was left with police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/news\/dunedin\/mailto:tim.scott@odt.co.nz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tim.scott@odt.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been seriously injured in a crash that has blocked State Highway 83\u00a0near Duntroon. Police were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-640701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640701","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=640701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}