{"id":2759,"date":"2025-09-05T02:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/2759\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T02:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:19:07","slug":"car-fire-on-auckland-southern-motorway-traffic-snarled-as-smoke-billows-across-lanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/2759\/","title":{"rendered":"Car fire on Auckland Southern Motorway, traffic snarled as smoke billows across lanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">NZTA said the southbound left lane remains blocked but a tow-truck is now on site.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE 1:55PM<br \/>Due to the car fire, the southbound left lane remains BLOCKED after Grafton Rd on-ramp. Tow truck is now on-site. Road users are advised to continue expecting DELAYS. ^SG <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WSMBe8nh7r\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/WSMBe8nh7r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NZ Transport Agency &#8211; Auckland &amp; Northland (@nztaaklnth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nztaaklnth\/status\/1963783652526960991?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">Traffic is backed up to the Harbour Bridge heading north, St Luke\u2019s interchange on the Northwestern Motorway and back to Sylvia Park on the Southern Motorway heading north.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Traffic is backed up in three directions after the crash. Picture \/ Google maps\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Traffic is backed up in three directions after the crash. Picture \/ Google maps<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">Motorists were told to expect delays in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\">Sign up to Herald Premium Editor\u2019s Picks<\/a>, delivered straight to your inbox every Friday. Editor-in-Chief Murray Kirkness picks the week\u2019s best features, interviews and investigations. Sign up for Herald Premium <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/subscription\/offers\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/subscription\/offers\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZTA said the southbound left lane remains blocked but a tow-truck is now on site. UPDATE 1:55PMDue to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2840,806,51,3952,3949,3951,3944,2079,42,3954,3950,3945,43,90,3948,3947,171,3953,40,38,41,39,3946],"class_list":["post-2759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-across","tag-as","tag-auckland","tag-aucklands","tag-billows","tag-blocking","tag-car","tag-fire","tag-headlines","tag-junction","tag-lanes","tag-motorway","tag-news","tag-on","tag-smoke","tag-snarled","tag-southern","tag-spaghetti","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759","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=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}