{"id":216991,"date":"2026-01-04T23:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/216991\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T23:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:25:08","slug":"sunlive-highway-closed-serious-crash-on-sh24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/216991\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Highway closed: Serious crash on SH24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Highway 24 is closed after reports on a serious crash.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the scene shortly after the two-car crash was reported at 9.45am.<\/p>\n<p>Police said SH24\/Tauranga Rd was closed following a crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInitial indications are that there are serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe road is closed near Old Te Aroha Rd. Motorists are advised to avoid the area and expect delays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Drivers were being advised to follow the directions of emergency services and expect significant delays.<\/p>\n<p>Diversions were in place.<\/p>\n<p>For Southbound traffic from SH24 continue onto Te Poi Rd and turn left onto SH29. Reverse for Northbound traffic..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State Highway 24 is closed after reports on a serious crash. Emergency services were called to the scene&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-216991","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\/216991","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=216991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}