{"id":249121,"date":"2026-01-24T06:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/249121\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T06:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:33:09","slug":"car-winds-up-in-southland-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/249121\/","title":{"rendered":"Car winds up in Southland creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"2\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/crash_near_garston_plate_pixellated.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"The car came to rest in Fosters Creek. Photo: Bill Gordon\/supplied \"\/><\/p>\n<p>The car came to rest in Fosters Creek. Photo: Bill Gordon\/supplied <\/p>\n<p>A person has minor injuries after their car crashed on State Highway 6 and wound up in a Southland creek.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A police spokeswoman said the crash happened on the Kingston-Garston Highway, near Nevis Rd, and was reported at 9.25am on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A witness said the damaged car ended up in Fosters Creek, about 5km north of Garston.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The highway remained open and no other vehicles were involved.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said St John ambulance treated the driver for minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews from Garston, Athol and Kingston stations attended.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Allied Media\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The car came to rest in Fosters Creek. Photo: Bill Gordon\/supplied A person has minor injuries after their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-249121","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\/249121","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=249121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}