{"id":235133,"date":"2026-01-15T19:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/235133\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T19:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:50:08","slug":"truck-crash-hazardous-material-spills-over-road-traffic-management-on-sh36-north-of-rotorua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/235133\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck crash, hazardous material spills over road, traffic management on SH36 north of Rotorua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">People are advised to expect delays in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">Meanwhile, Te Rapa Rd in Hamilton is also closed following a serious crash just after midnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">Emergency services were called to the two-vehicle crash in Beerescourt around 12.30am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">The road is closed between Forest Lake Rd and Vardon Rd, with the public advised to avoid the area and expect delays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">Police said they could not confirm any information regarding injuries at this stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">And in the South Island, a truck-and-trailer crash on SH1 is also causing delays for \u014camaru residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">The crash happened around 3.10am, between Sandringham St and College St.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">No serious injuries were reported but the road is partially blocked and drivers are advised to take a different route if they can.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People are advised to expect delays in the area. Meanwhile, Te Rapa Rd in Hamilton is also closed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2840,3549,139158,26755,1044,6287,397,111,43,139,529,69,1118,90,1523,1314,1327,137633,139159,43926,13672,3946,23857],"class_list":["post-235133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-across","tag-crash","tag-hazardous","tag-highway","tag-management","tag-material","tag-materials","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-on","tag-over","tag-road","tag-rotorua","tag-sh36","tag-spilled","tag-spills","tag-state","tag-traffic","tag-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235133","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=235133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}