{"id":179726,"date":"2025-12-12T06:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T06:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/179726\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T06:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T06:04:10","slug":"southern-motorway-reopens-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/179726\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Motorway reopens after crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crash between a car and a logging truck left three people injured and part of the Southern Motorway closed this afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The northbound lanes of the highway were closed between the Kaikorai Valley offramp and Caversham Valley Rd on-ramp between about 3.30pm and 5.15pm following the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Hato Hone St john spokesman said they responded with two ambulances and a rapid response vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Three people, one with moderate and two with minor injuries, were taken to Dunedin Hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although the road has reopened, traffic may still be moving through the area slowly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NZTA Waka Kotahi urged motorists to drive with extra care.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crash between a car and a logging truck left three people injured and part of the Southern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-179726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179726","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=179726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}