{"id":642791,"date":"2026-10-27T12:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/642791\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T12:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:50:13","slug":"mt-wellington-highway-incident-one-person-rushed-to-hospital-in-serious-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/642791\/","title":{"rendered":"Mt Wellington Highway incident: One person rushed to hospital in serious condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/LBVXE765QRCHXCI5VJ5FKIGRZY.png\" alt=\"Zeb Tupa'i\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/zeb-tupai\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Zeb Tupa&#8217;i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multimedia Journalist\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>27 Oct, 2026 09:23 AMQuick Read<\/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 data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Police have cordoned off a home on Mount Wellington Highway following a serious incident. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One person has been taken to hospital in a serious condition following an incident on Mt Wellington Highway in Auckland this evening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Armed police are guarding a residential property, with seven officers and four police vehicles at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Hato Hone St John said it received a call about<br \/>\n         7.56pm and sent an ambulance, operations manager and critical care paramedic in a rapid response vehicle.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">One patient was transported to Auckland City Hospital in a serious condition.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Police have cordoned off the address, with an armed police scene guard in place overnight. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward \" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police have cordoned off the address, with an armed police scene guard in place overnight. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zeb Tupa&#8217;i Multimedia Journalist\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7 27 Oct, 2026 09:23 AMQuick Read \u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,1558,1239,19555,5504,26755,2241,78,671,10048,111,43,139,69,5270,4056,11426,1238,19554,1961,61,52],"class_list":["post-642791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-condition","tag-evening","tag-following","tag-highway","tag-hospital","tag-in","tag-incident","tag-mt","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-person","tag-rushed","tag-serious","tag-taken","tag-this","tag-to","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642791","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=642791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}