{"id":229535,"date":"2026-01-12T08:52:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/229535\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T08:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:52:06","slug":"four-injured-part-of-highway-closed-after-canterbury-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/229535\/","title":{"rendered":"Four injured, part of highway closed after Canterbury crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four people are injured and part of SH1 is closed following a two-vehicle crash in Canterbury this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were called to the collision on State Highway 1\/Rakaia Highway, near Hatfield Overdale Rd, around 5.50pm.<\/p>\n<p>Three people were seriously injured in the incident and a fourth person sustained moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists were advised to avoid the area and expect delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people are injured and part of SH1 is closed following a two-vehicle crash in Canterbury this evening.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,158,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-229535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-christchurch-canterbury","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\/229535","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=229535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}