{"id":215052,"date":"2026-01-03T16:07:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T16:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/215052\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T16:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T16:07:21","slug":"multiple-injured-after-northland-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/215052\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple injured after Northland crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4KUCB1A_warrant_01_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"705\" alt=\"A police officer investigates alleged crime in Northland.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nDelays are to be expected as emergency services work at the scene.<br \/>\nPhoto: NZ Police \/ Supplied\n<\/p>\n<p>Motorists travelling between Northland and Auckland faced long delays on Saturday afternoon after a crash closed the main highway.<\/p>\n<p>The two-vehicle crash was reported around 12.45pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Several people were injured, after a ute and truck collided on State Highway 1 at Brynderwyn, between Whang\u0101rei and Wellsford.<\/p>\n<p>Two helicopters and two ambulances helped to take the four injured to hospital, where two are in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>SH1 was closed between SH12 and Waipu Gorge Rd, but has since been reopened.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rnz.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":"Delays are to be expected as emergency services work at the scene. Photo: NZ Police \/ Supplied Motorists&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150461,"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-215052","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\/215052","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=215052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}