{"id":109978,"date":"2025-10-31T03:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T03:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/109978\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T03:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T03:32:09","slug":"people-critically-hurt-state-highway-3-blocked-after-two-vehicle-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/109978\/","title":{"rendered":"People critically hurt, State Highway 3 blocked after two-vehicle crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4M2WHSW_copyright_image_277087\" width=\"1050\" height=\"644\" alt=\"No caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nFile photo.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Marika Khabazi\n<\/p>\n<p>State Highway 3 near Hamilton is blocked after a two-vehicle crash.<\/p>\n<p>Police say there appear to be critical injuries after the accident at Rukuhia.<\/p>\n<p>The road is blocked at the Narrows Road intersection.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers are being urged to avoid the area and expect delays.<\/p>\n<p>More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File photo. Photo: RNZ \/ Marika Khabazi State Highway 3 near Hamilton is blocked after a two-vehicle crash.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-109978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}