{"id":264374,"date":"2026-02-02T20:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/264374\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T20:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:30:07","slug":"waikato-expressway-crash-blocks-sh1-northbound-near-tamahere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/264374\/","title":{"rendered":"Waikato Expressway crash blocks SH1 northbound near Tamahere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>2 Feb, 2026 07:46 PMQuick 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\">The lanes are blocked after a two-vehicle crash, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A section of State Highway 1 is blocked south of Hamilton after two vehicles crashed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The northbound lanes of the highway are blocked near Tamahere on the Waikato Expressway after the crash, which was reported to emergency services just before 8am, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/police\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/police\/\">police <\/a>said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         No one<br \/>\n         was hurt, but the lanes are expected to be blocked for a \u201cshort time\u201d.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"nQBCzZDznEEEs\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cMotorists should consider alternative routes or delay travel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"A two-vehicle crash has blocked northbound lanes on State Highway 1 near Tamahere, south of Hamilton and on the Waikato Expressway. Long traffic delays could be seen on Google Maps at 8.45am. Image \/ Google Maps\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A two-vehicle crash has blocked northbound lanes on State Highway 1 near Tamahere, south of Hamilton and on the Waikato Expressway. Long traffic delays could be seen on Google Maps at 8.45am. Image \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 2 Feb, 2026 07:46 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,28648,46330,3549,15979,38121,6288,26755,3180,111,43,139,29817,69,14777,37229,1240,13672,151061,6861,1524],"class_list":["post-264374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-blocked","tag-blocks","tag-crash","tag-crashed","tag-expressway","tag-hamilton","tag-highway","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-northbound","tag-nz","tag-section","tag-sh1","tag-south","tag-state","tag-tamahere","tag-vehicles","tag-waikato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264374","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=264374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}