{"id":273291,"date":"2026-02-08T04:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/273291\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T04:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:36:09","slug":"car-fire-at-khyber-pass-off-ramp-jams-sh1-in-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/273291\/","title":{"rendered":"Car fire at Khyber Pass off-ramp jams SH1 in Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4JTIZR7_Image_25_jfif.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" alt=\"A car fire shut down the SH1 Khyber Pass off-ramp in central Auckland, on Sunday 8 February, 2026.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nA car fire shut down the SH1 Khyber Pass off-ramp in central Auckland, on Sunday 8 February, 2026.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ\/ Calvin Samuel\n<\/p>\n<p>A car fire has closed the State Highway 1 Khyber Pass off-ramp in central Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>Just after 2pm on Sunday an RNZ staff member at the scene said the fire appeared to have been put out.<\/p>\n<p>But traffic had backed up, and was crawling from the Ellerslie-Panmure Highway heading toward the city.<\/p>\n<p>Just before 2pm on Sunday the New Zealand Transport Agency published a warning online that the off-ramp was closed due to the car fire. It said drivers should use avoid the area, and use the Symonds Street off-ramp.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4JTIZR7_Image_24_jfif.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" alt=\"A car fire shut down the SH1 Khyber Pass off-ramp in central Auckland, on Sunday 8 February, 2026.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nA car fire shut down the SH1 Khyber Pass off-ramp in central Auckland, on Sunday 8 February, 2026.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ\/ Calvin Samuel\n<\/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":"A car fire shut down the SH1 Khyber Pass off-ramp in central Auckland, on Sunday 8 February, 2026.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273292,"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-273291","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\/273291","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=273291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}