{"id":215581,"date":"2026-01-04T00:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/215581\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T00:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:34:09","slug":"sh3-blocked-after-waikato-crash-leaves-two-with-serious-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/215581\/","title":{"rendered":"SH3 blocked after Waikato crash leaves two with serious injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4KJCPP5_road_closed_police_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" alt=\"A sign saying 'road closed'.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nA serious crash has closed State Highway 3\/\u014chaup\u014d Road where it intersects with Ryburn Road.<br \/>\nPhoto: Pretoria Gordon \/ RNZ\n<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services have responded to the scene of a serious crash that has closed State Highway 3\/\u014chaup\u014d Road where it intersects with Ryburn Road in Waikato.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a two-vehicle crash was reported about 9.15am on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Initial indications are that two people have serious injuries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Diversions are in place and delays are expected as emergency services work at the scene.<\/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":"A serious crash has closed State Highway 3\/\u014chaup\u014d Road where it intersects with Ryburn Road. Photo: Pretoria Gordon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21905,"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-215581","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\/215581","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=215581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}