{"id":204817,"date":"2025-12-28T09:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T09:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/204817\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T09:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T09:16:10","slug":"one-seriously-injured-in-crash-on-upper-hutts-sh2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/204817\/","title":{"rendered":"One seriously injured in crash on Upper Hutt&#8217;s SH2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4JVOEQ0_Media_jfif.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" alt=\"Emergency services at the scene of an accident at the intersection of SH2 and Waterworks Road in Kaitoke.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nEmergency services at the scene of an accident at the intersection of SH2 and Waterworks Road in Kaitoke.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Mary Argue\n<\/p>\n<p>A road closed by a serious two-vehicle crash in Upper Hutt has now reopened.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the incident at the intersection of SH2 and Waterworks Road in Kaitoke about 6.35pm.<\/p>\n<p>Police said initial indications were that a person had been seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4JVOEQ0_Media_1_jfif.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" alt=\"Traffic backed up at the scene of an accident at the intersection of SH2 and Waterworks Road in Kaitoke.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nTraffic backed up at the scene of an accident at the intersection of SH2 and Waterworks Road in Kaitoke.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Mary Argue\n<\/p>\n<p>The highway was blocked at the intersection, which would likely cause &#8220;significant delays&#8221; in both directions, police said earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists should avoid the area if possible, they said.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services at the scene of an accident at the intersection of SH2 and Waterworks Road in Kaitoke.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-204817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204817","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=204817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}