Expect 'long delays' after SH25 crash, motorists warned
Sunday, 2 January 2022
Parts of State Highway 25 in Tairua have been closed in the wake of a five-car crash on Sunday morning.
A police spokesperson said they received reports of a “five vehicle crash” about 11.50am today, and that one of the vehicles involved had been left “undriveable”.
They also said fuel may have spilled onto the road.
Waka Kotahi/New Zealand Transport Agency have also warned drivers to expect delays and congestion in the area “due to significant holiday traffic around Tairua”.
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“Expect long delays,” the agency said.
The police spokesperson told Stuff “minor injuries” had been sustained in the wake of the accident.
A St John spokesperson told Stuff they treated one person for minor injuries, but that they did not require transportation to a hospital.
The official Christmas holiday road toll period started at 4pm on December 24 and runs until 6am on January 5. Since then, there have been seven deaths on New Zealand roads, according to Ministry of Transport data.
On Christmas Eve, one person was killed in a two-car crash that injured five others south of Taupō. On the morning of Christmas Day, a motorcyclist died in Hamilton, while another died after a truck and car collided in Waihola, just south of Dunedin.
About 10.30pm on Christmas evening, a pedestrian was hit and killed by a car in New Windsor, Auckland.
On Boxing Day, Rangiora man John Osborne, 62, was killed after his truck plummeted down the bank of Canterbury's Lewis Pass in the early hours of the morning.
The next day, a motorcyclist died in a crash involving three cars in Huntly, Waikato.