{"id":157647,"date":"2025-11-28T07:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T07:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/157647\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T07:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T07:25:08","slug":"state-highway-36-in-tauranga-closes-after-car-hits-power-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/157647\/","title":{"rendered":"State Highway 36 in Tauranga closes after car hits power pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>28 Nov, 2025 05:33 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A section of SH36 in Tauranga is closed after a car hit a power pole. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A section of State Highway 36 in the Bay of Plenty has been closed after a car hit a power pole. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services were called to the scene between Taumata Rd and Oropi Rd about 3.10pm following reports a car had struck a power pole. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cFortunately, the driver<br \/>\n         did not sustain serious injuries; however, the power pole and lines are completely blocking the road,\u201d police said.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"CHLSLkBXpVqCICiH\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt may take at least another hour to clear the road and motorists are asked to take alternative routes where possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 28 Nov, 2025 05:33 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61293,74,1558,3944,5201,18509,26755,4508,78,111,43,139,69,1562,23897,10112,14777,13672,1227],"class_list":["post-157647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-61293","tag-after","tag-been","tag-car","tag-closed","tag-closes","tag-highway","tag-hits","tag-in","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-plenty","tag-pole","tag-power","tag-section","tag-state","tag-tauranga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157647","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=157647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}