{"id":170567,"date":"2025-12-06T04:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T04:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/170567\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T04:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T04:46:06","slug":"multi-vehicle-crash-on-nelson-st-causes-major-delays-in-central-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/170567\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-vehicle crash on Nelson St causes major delays in central Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  alt=\"Fire engines, ambulances, and police respond to a multi-vehicle collision on Nelson St. Photo \/ Sam Sherry\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Fire engines, ambulances, and police respond to a multi-vehicle collision on Nelson St. Photo \/ Sam Sherry<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">One vehicle has since left the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Witnesses reported that an elderly driver was trapped in the flipped vehicle but was removed safely.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"A white Toyota lies on its side after a multi-vehicle crash on Nelson St, near Wellesley St West, Friday afternoon. Photo \/ Sam Sherry\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A white Toyota lies on its side after a multi-vehicle crash on Nelson St, near Wellesley St West, Friday afternoon. Photo \/ Sam Sherry<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Police described the worst injury as moderate, with no life-threatening injuries reported.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Emergency services attend the scene of a crash on Nelson St. Photo \/ Sam Sherry\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Emergency services attend the scene of a crash on Nelson St. Photo \/ Sam Sherry<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">A Herald reporter at the scene said traffic was heavily affected in the area, with congestion extending to nearby roads and the motorway. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">A tow truck has been called in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Ben Tomsett is a multimedia journalist based in Dunedin. He joined the Herald in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire engines, ambulances, and police respond to a multi-vehicle collision on Nelson St. Photo \/ Sam Sherry One&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,23604,1853,3549,16492,15974,78,661,97212,91,111,43,139,69,90,22704,1321,11420],"class_list":["post-170567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-causes","tag-central","tag-crash","tag-delays","tag-emergency","tag-in","tag-major","tag-multivehicle","tag-nelson","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-responding","tag-services","tag-st"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170567","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=170567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}