{"id":169841,"date":"2025-12-05T17:52:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/169841\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T17:52:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:52:20","slug":"person-killed-major-lower-hutt-road-closed-for-hours-as-fuel-truck-hits-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/169841\/","title":{"rendered":"Person killed, major Lower Hutt road closed for hours as fuel truck hits building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4JWXSF2_Melling_crash_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"707\" alt=\"Melling crash\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nRutherford Street, between Melling Link and Connolly Street, is closed.<br \/>\nPhoto: X \/ NZ Transport Agency\n<\/p>\n<p>A person is dead after a fuel truck collided with a building on Lower Hutt&#8217;s Rutherford Street.<\/p>\n<p>At 9.15am Rutherford Street, between Melling Link and Connolly Street, was still closed after the single-vehicle crash about 5.30am on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Melling Bridge was earlier closed due to the accident but police said it had now reopened.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency told RNZ they were no longer in attendance, but they had assisted with removing the driver from the truck.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SH2 MELLING &#8211; CRASH &#8211; 6:55AM, THU 4 DEC<\/p>\n<p>Due to a crash, access to and from the Melling Link Bridge is now CLOSED. Road users are advised to use an alternate route and take extra care. ^JP <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JMQP2k2Our\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/JMQP2k2Our<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi &#8211; Wellington (@nztawgtn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nztawgtn\/status\/1996277801247211532?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 3, 2025<\/a><\/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<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rutherford Street, between Melling Link and Connolly Street, is closed. Photo: X \/ NZ Transport Agency A person&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166573,"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-169841","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\/169841","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=169841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}