{"id":216217,"date":"2026-01-04T11:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/216217\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T11:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:21:08","slug":"state-highway-8-closed-after-four-vehicle-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/216217\/","title":{"rendered":"State Highway 8 closed after four-vehicle crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4NFM809_copyright_image_187952.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"No caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nFile photo.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Simon Rogers\n<\/p>\n<p>Three rescue helicopters have rushed to a four-vehicle crash that has closed State Highway 8 near Tekapo.<\/p>\n<p>Three people have serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the crash happened about 7pm, between Tekapo Powerhouse Road and Braemar Road.<\/p>\n<p>Another person has moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The road is expected to be closed for some time.<\/p>\n<p>Police are urging drivers to delay travel between Tekapo and Twizel, or face delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File photo. Photo: RNZ \/ Simon Rogers Three rescue helicopters have rushed to a four-vehicle crash that has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216218,"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-216217","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\/216217","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=216217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}