{"id":10669,"date":"2024-07-12T05:13:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T17:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10669"},"modified":"2024-07-12T05:13:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T17:13:57","slug":"six-hospitalised-after-northern-motorway-crash-lengthy-delays-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10669","title":{"rendered":"Six hospitalised after Northern Motorway crash, &#8216;lengthy delays&#8217; expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six people have been hospitalised following a multi-vehicle crash in Auckland&#8217;s Dairy Flat.<\/p>\n<p>The crash, which involved three vehicles, occurred on the Northern Motorway, heading north, shortly after 2pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Police said of the six injured, four were in a serious condition, one was moderate, and another suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Initial indications suggest there have been critical injuries,&#8221; police said earlier in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Footage of the scene on social media showed multiple police cars, ambulances, fire trucks and a helicopter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rnztools.nz\/rnz\/image\/upload\/s--XCsJVEOk--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1720677666\/4KN761M_traffic_JPG\" alt=\"Traffic is incredibly heavy at 6pm on Thursday 11 July heading towards Silverdale, as far back as the North Shore on the Northern Motorway following a multi vehicle crash,\" width=\"1050\" height=\"786\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0Supplied \/ Google Traffic<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hato Hone St John Ambulance said nine vehicles responded to the accident &#8211; five ambulances, two rapid response units and two operations managers.<\/p>\n<p>The road was closed northbound between Oteha Valley Road and Silverdale until about 6pm.<\/p>\n<p>NZTA said motorists could expect northbound delays to ease.<\/p>\n<p>At 6pm, NZTA webcams showed northbound traffic backed up as far as Wairau Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Emergency Services Trust helicopter spokesperson Steve Macmillan said one of his organisation&#8217;s helicopters was on its way back from taking a patient from the Bay of Islands to Auckland Hospital when it was contacted about the crash.<\/p>\n<p>He said the pilot found a gap in the clouds and landed in a paddock near the motorway.<\/p>\n<p>Two paramedics on board helped with the injured but the helicopter did not take any patients to hospital and had returned to Whang\u0101rei, he said.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six people have been hospitalised following a multi-vehicle crash in Auckland&#8217;s Dairy Flat. The crash, which involved three vehicles, occurred on the Northern Motorway, heading north, shortly after 2pm on Thursday. Police said of the six injured, four were in a serious condition, one was moderate, and another suffered minor injuries. &#8220;Initial indications suggest there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10671,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669\/revisions\/10671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}