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State Highway 3 Awakino bypass officially opens - but stays on slow burner until final seal completed

State Highway 3 Awakino bypass officially opens - but stays on slow burner until final seal completed
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$50m Awakino tunnel bypass days away from opening

Mike Watson05:00, May 25 2021 SIMON O CONNOR/STUFF The bypass required two new bridges to be built over the Awakino River. Taranaki’s northern gateway is about to get a little wider, and more welcoming, for visitors. Since 1924 motorists and truckies have waited in a queue as oncoming traffic inched its way through the one lane Awakino Gorge tunnel on State Highway 3. In a few days the waiting game will be a thing of the past as the $50.1m Awakino tunnel bypass project is fully opened to all vehicles. Waka Kotahi/Stuff Two new bridges have been built to bypass the 100-year-old Awakino Gorge tunnel on State Highway 3, north of New Plymouth.

Person airlifted to hospital after car crashes over Awakino Gorge bank

A person was flown to Taranaki Base Hospital after a crash in the Awakino Gorge on Friday. A person has been airlifted to hospital with head injuries after their car went over a bank in the Awakino Gorge, north of Mōkau. The crash happened about two-kilometres north of the Junction Service Station on State Highway 3 on Friday. Emergency Services were called around 11.40am to reports of a car, with a single occupant, going over a bank. The person was out of the vehicle and had suffered injuries to the head, a police spokeswoman said. A helicopter was called to the scene and airlifted the patient in a moderate condition to Taranaki Base Hospital.

One person seriously injured, two others hospitalised after truck and car collide in Awakino Gorge

Andy Jackson/Stuff Four ambulances were sent to a crash involving a truck and a car in the Awakino Gorge, north of New Plymouth, around 4.40am on Wednesday. (File photo) Three people were taken to hospital, one with serious injuries, after a truck and car collided on State Highway 3 early Wednesday morning.. Emergency services were called to the Awakino Gorge, north of New Plymouth, around 4.40am. A police media spokeswoman said original reports were that two trucks and a car had crashed and the road was completely blocked. The spokeswoman said the crash had turned out to involve one truck and a car, and could not find any more details on the road’s closure.

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