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One person died and 13 others were rushed New Zealand hospitals after a bus carrying international tourists collided with two other vehicles on a rural highway.
The Ambulance Service said two people were in a critical condition and four others were seriously injured and the rest were moderately injured after Wednesday’s crash in the Waikato region of the North Island.
The cause of the three-car collision is unknown. This happened on a straight stretch of highway in good weather conditions.
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New Zealand police confirmed the crash involved a small bus carrying 11 international tourists and their driver. There were three people in the other two cars.
Officials did not say which countries the tourists were from or which vehicle the dead person was traveling in. Injured people were transported to hospitals by air and by road in the North Island, according to St John Ambulance.
The road is closed at the scene of the crash, on a rural highway 50km from the city of Hamilton.
Tour buses have been involved in fatal crashes before on New Zealand’s state highways, which are often narrow and winding. In one of the worst episodes, a bus overturned in rainy conditions north of Rotorua on the North Island in 2019, killing five tourists from China.
In 2008 eight tourists and their driver were killed when their bus collided with a logging truck.
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