{"id":276332,"date":"2026-02-10T05:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T05:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/276332\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T05:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T05:03:08","slug":"serious-two-car-crash-closes-state-highway-2-in-wairoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/276332\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious two-car crash closes State Highway 2 in Wairoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawkes Bay Today<\/p>\n<p>10 Feb, 2026 02:51 AMQuick 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 class=\"\">A serious crash has closed a State Highway 2 in Wairoa, with traffic diverted, and motorists are asked to delay travel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police were called to the two-vehicle crash at Black St and Archilles St about 3pm and the road is now closed at Black St. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         A police spokesman said<br \/>\n         they understood there were injuries, and diversions were being organised.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"sOrINelcmiMRl\" style=\"display:none\">NZTA said the Serious Crash Unit would attend the scene and their investigations could take several hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sOrINelcmiMRl\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cDelay your journey or avoid the area.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawkes Bay Today 10 Feb, 2026 02:51 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13916,5201,18509,3549,9947,73,26755,78,51720,111,43,139,69,1238,13672,3946,274,27050,15289,102],"class_list":["post-276332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-asked","tag-closed","tag-closes","tag-crash","tag-delay","tag-diverted","tag-highway","tag-in","tag-motorists","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-serious","tag-state","tag-traffic","tag-travel","tag-twocar","tag-wairoa","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276332","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=276332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}