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Four injured in head-on suburban Napier crash

Hawkes Bay Today
27 Dec, 2022 06:11 PM2 mins to read

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Maraenui street Bledisloe Road the morning after a crash which seriously injured three people and closed the road for several hours as police investigated. Photo / NZME

Maraenui street Bledisloe Road the morning after a crash which seriously injured three people and closed the road for several hours as police investigated. Photo / NZME

One person is in a critical condition in hospital and another is in a serious condition after a head-on crash which closed a main thoroughfare in Napier suburb Maraenui for more than three hours on Tuesday night.

Two others received moderate to minor injuries in the crash which happened just before 7.50pm on Tuesday in fine and dry conditions on Bledisloe Rd, at the intersection with Barnard Ave

Eastern Police District road policing manager Inspector Matt Broderick confirmed two vehicles were involved, the collision was head-on and four people were involved - three of them in one of the vehicles.

One had to be extracted from one of the vehicles, and who self-extricated was understood to have been transported privately to the Napier Medical Centre..

Three Hato Hone St John Ambulances crews and three Fire and Emergency NZ crews attended.

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Access was closed from both the Riverbend Rd and Longfellow Ave ends of Bledisloe Rd as well as at Barnard Ave.

With police serious crash investigators at the scene, which Broderick said was because of the seriousness of the injuries, the road remained closed for more than three hours, and was reopened soon after 11pm.

Broderick said police were still seeking witnesses to what had happened, but there had been no reports in relation to the vehicles from before the crash happened.

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