{"id":206859,"date":"2025-12-29T15:18:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T15:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/206859\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T15:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T15:18:20","slug":"one-seriously-injured-in-crash-on-upper-hutts-sh2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/206859\/","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><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":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-206859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206859","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=206859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206859\/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=206859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}