{"id":261921,"date":"2026-02-01T03:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T03:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/261921\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T03:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T03:31:07","slug":"one-dead-after-crash-near-glenorchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/261921\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead after crash near Glenorchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4ML3SGP_copyright_image_246240.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"No caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n(file photo)<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Tom Kitchin\n<\/p>\n<p>One person has died after a crash north of Lake Wakatipu.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called about 4.40am Sunday, after two vehicles collided on the Glenorchy-Routeburn Road, police said.<\/p>\n<p>One person died at the scene and one was in a serious condition.<\/p>\n<p>The road was still partially blocked just before 1pm Sunday, as emergency services and the Serious Crash Unit worked at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our thoughts and sympathies are with those involved,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are no available diversions and the road is partially opening when possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero, a daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(file photo) Photo: RNZ \/ Tom Kitchin One person has died after a crash north of Lake Wakatipu.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-261921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261921","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=261921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}