{"id":215837,"date":"2026-01-04T04:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/215837\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T04:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:46:07","slug":"truck-carrying-small-house-ploughs-into-auckland-motorway-overbridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/215837\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck carrying small house ploughs into Auckland motorway overbridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4JVBOCU_debris_jfif.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"575\" alt=\"Debris blocks lanes on Southern Motorway in Auckland.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nDebris blocks lanes on Southern Motorway in Auckland.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied \/ NZTA Waka Kotahi\n<\/p>\n<p>A truck carrying a small house has ploughed into an overbridge on an Auckland motorway, piling debris onto the road.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the crash between the Papakura on-ramp and Manurewa and Takanini off-ramp just before 3.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody was hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Two lanes were initially shut down while debris was cleared on lanes heading north, but have now re-opened.<\/p>\n<p>The Transport Agency says traffic in the area is very heavy, and drivers should allow extra time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Debris blocks lanes on Southern Motorway in Auckland. Photo: Supplied \/ NZTA Waka Kotahi A truck carrying a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215838,"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-215837","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\/215837","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=215837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}