{"id":241974,"date":"2026-01-20T05:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/241974\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T05:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:08:17","slug":"delays-after-crash-on-lindis-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/241974\/","title":{"rendered":"Delays after crash on Lindis Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A multi-vehicle crash caused delays for motorists on a key southern highway today.<\/p>\n<p>The four-vehicle crash occurred on the Lindis Pass (State Highway 8)\u00a0between Waitaki and Central Otago shortly before midday.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said minor injuries had been reported.<\/p>\n<p>The road remained open but traffic management was set up and queues of traffic built up for a time while the scene was cleared.<\/p>\n<p>In an update about 12.45pm NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi said traffic flow was back to normal.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A multi-vehicle crash caused delays for motorists on a key southern highway today. The four-vehicle crash occurred on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-241974","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\/241974","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=241974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}