{"id":194266,"date":"2025-12-21T02:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/194266\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T02:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:49:08","slug":"fiery-crash-blocking-lanes-on-state-highway-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/194266\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiery crash blocking lanes on State Highway 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4KAEMAJ_RNZD0271_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"RNZ\/Reece Baker\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n(File photo)<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER\n<\/p>\n<p>Emergency Services were working at the scene of a fiery crash that closed State Highway One lanes near Hampton Downs.<\/p>\n<p>No-one was seriously injured in the crash on Sunday, but the vehicle caught fire after the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Northbound lanes of the Waikato Expressway were closed, while the crashed vehicle and response teams blocked the road, but by 1pm, NZ Transport Agency said one northbound lane had re-opened.<\/p>\n<p>The affected section was north of the Hampton Downs on-ramp.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers should allow extra time for travelling through the area and follow instructions of emergency services at the scene.<\/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 daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(File photo) Photo: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER Emergency Services were working at the scene of a fiery crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15045,"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-194266","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\/194266","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=194266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}