{"id":204677,"date":"2025-12-28T07:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T07:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/204677\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T07:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T07:28:07","slug":"west-coast-sh73-oil-spill-makes-slippery-driving-conditions-near-springfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/204677\/","title":{"rendered":"West Coast SH73 oil spill makes slippery driving conditions near Springfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>28 Dec, 2025 05:59 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A large oil spill is causing slippery conditions for vehicles on the West Coast of the South Island. Image \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A 10km oil spill is causing slippery conditions for vehicles on the West Coast of the South Island. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi said the spillage reportedly extends from the Porter Pass summit along SH73\/West Coast Road, to the intersection with Benmore Road, near Springfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         They said the combination<br \/>\n         of oil and rain had made for \u201cslippery conditions for vehicles to navigate.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Crews have now been sent to the site of the spill to begin the cleanup. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 28 Dec, 2025 05:59 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[123700,11519,11586,8278,4189,2514,5338,3180,111,43,139,69,4156,124983,42472,1240,48216,27607,6861,3807],"class_list":["post-204677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-10km","tag-causing","tag-coast","tag-conditions","tag-driving","tag-island","tag-makes","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-oil","tag-sh73","tag-slippery","tag-south","tag-spill","tag-springfield","tag-vehicles","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204677","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=204677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}