{"id":169660,"date":"2025-12-05T15:28:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T15:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/169660\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T15:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T15:28:17","slug":"person-dies-after-truck-crash-on-sh2-north-of-dannevirke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/169660\/","title":{"rendered":"Person dies after truck crash on SH2 north of Dannevirke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4KAEMAL_RNZD0270_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"RNZ\/Reece Baker\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nSt John says one person with serious injuries is being flown to Palmerston North Hospital.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER\n<\/p>\n<p>Police have confirmed one person has died following a crash on State Highway 2 north of Dennevirke on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the crash near Okane Road in Matamau at about 9.50am.<\/p>\n<p>A second person sustained serious injuries and has been transported to hospital, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency confirmed a truck was involved, and said its crews helped free the driver who had been trapped.<\/p>\n<p>SH2 would remain closed for some time while the Serious Crash unit conduct a scene examination, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are advised to avoid the area, and detours are in place.<\/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":"St John says one person with serious injuries is being flown to Palmerston North Hospital. Photo: RNZ \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158641,"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":["post-169660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169660","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=169660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}