State Highway 8 near Lawrence has reopened this morning after a truck and trailer rollover last night blocked the key southern route.<\/p>\n
A 50km\/h temporary speed restriction is in place, and people are asked to travel with care through the area, New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi said.<\/p>\n
Special fire appliances from Dunedin were dispatched to the scene where a truck and trailer carrying an excavator rolled and was leaking diesel.<\/p>\n
A Fenz spokeswoman said the crash happened about 6.40pm yesterday, between Lawrence and Waitahuna.<\/p>\n
Crews from Lawrence, Waitahuna and Milton responded initially, and “a support vehicle” was sent from Dunedin with “some extra absorbent material” to help clean up the spills.<\/p>\n
The spills were believed to be a mixture of fuel and hydraulic oil, and the Dunedin unit was sent to ensure it did not leak into nearby waterways.<\/p>\n
A police spokeswoman said the excavator was down a bank, and the truck and trailer were partially blocking SH8,\u00a0and the road is now closed between Clarks Flat Rd and Waitahuna West Rd.<\/p>\n
There were no reports of injuries, she said.<\/p>\n
– Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State Highway 8 near Lawrence has reopened this morning after a truck and trailer rollover last night blocked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-235685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235685","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=235685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}