{"id":234640,"date":"2026-01-15T13:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/234640\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T13:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:13:10","slug":"serious-two-car-crash-shuts-state-highway-6-in-southland-detours-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/234640\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious two-car crash shuts State Highway 6 in Southland, detours in place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>15 Jan, 2026 02:58 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A serious crash has closed a section of State Highway 6 in Southland. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A serious crash has closed a section of a major Southland highway, as significant traffic congestion starts to build. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police said State Highway 6\/Great North Rd was closed near Eglinton St in Winton, about 30km north of Invercargill. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The two-vehicle crash was first reported to police just after<br \/>\n         3pm.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">Police said initial indications suggested the people involved had suffered serious injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 15 Jan, 2026 02:58 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3269,5201,97846,3549,49652,26755,78,661,111,43,139,69,6744,14777,1238,57343,5257,15488,1569,13672,3946,27050],"class_list":["post-234640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-build","tag-closed","tag-congestion","tag-crash","tag-detours","tag-highway","tag-in","tag-major","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-place","tag-section","tag-serious","tag-shuts","tag-significant","tag-southland","tag-starts","tag-state","tag-traffic","tag-twocar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234640","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=234640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}