{"id":216617,"date":"2026-01-04T17:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T17:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/216617\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T17:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T17:59:16","slug":"truck-carrying-house-ploughs-into-motorway-overbridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/216617\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck carrying house ploughs into motorway overbridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/house_bridge.png\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" alt=\"Debris blocks lanes on the Southern Motorway in Auckland.\u00a0Photo:\u00a0Supplied \/ NZTA Waka Kotahi\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Debris blocks lanes on the Southern Motorway in Auckland.\u00a0Photo:\u00a0Supplied \/ NZTA Waka Kotahi<\/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.<\/p>\n<p>One of them has since re-opened, leaving one closed.<\/p>\n<p>The Transport Agency says traffic in the area is very heavy, and drivers should allow extra time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/583150\/truck-carrying-small-house-ploughs-into-auckland-motorway-overbridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"2\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/010126.jpg\" width=\"930\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Debris blocks lanes on the Southern Motorway in Auckland.\u00a0Photo:\u00a0Supplied \/ NZTA Waka Kotahi A truck carrying a small&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-216617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216617","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=216617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}