{"id":245446,"date":"2026-01-22T03:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/245446\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T03:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:26:09","slug":"sh5-crash-road-reopens-after-truck-rolls-and-spills-gravel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/245446\/","title":{"rendered":"SH5 crash: Road reopens after truck rolls and spills gravel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawkes Bay Today<\/p>\n<p>22 Jan, 2026 12:24 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 truck rolled and spilled gravel on State Highway 5 near Matea Rd, closing the road for several hours. Photo \/ Doug Laing<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">State Highway 5 has reopened after a truck rolled, spilling gravel across the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Traffic was blocked on SH5 in both directions near Waipunga, between Matea Rd and Pohokura Rd, after the truck rolled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         A police spokesperson said the amount of gravel spilled required the road to be closed for<br \/>\n         several hours.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">A Hato Hone St John spokesperson said one patient, in a moderate condition, was transported to hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) closed SH5 between Taup\u014d and Eskdale at 1.15pm and reopened the road at 2.50pm under stop\/go traffic management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawkes Bay Today 22 Jan, 2026 12:24 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2840,74,95,3549,90550,26755,111,43,139,69,20593,1854,1314,25261,25259,116760,113135,43926,13672,23857],"class_list":["post-245446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-across","tag-after","tag-and","tag-crash","tag-gravel","tag-highway","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-reopened","tag-reopens","tag-road","tag-rolled","tag-rolls","tag-sh5","tag-spilling","tag-spills","tag-state","tag-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245446","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=245446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}