{"id":298570,"date":"2026-02-23T19:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/298570\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T19:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:50:16","slug":"third-person-dies-after-crash-on-state-highway-1-in-marlborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/298570\/","title":{"rendered":"Third person dies after crash on State Highway 1 in Marlborough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4JSRFTK_sh1_redwood_pass_png.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"675\" alt=\"State Highway 1, near Redwood Pass, was closed for six hours while the serious crash unit conducted a scene examination.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nState Highway 1, near Redwood Pass, was closed for six hours while the serious crash unit conducted a scene examination.<br \/>\nPhoto: Google Maps\n<\/p>\n<p>A third person has died after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/587567\/two-people-dead-three-others-in-critical-condition-after-sh1-crash-in-marlborough\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crash between a car and a campervan<\/a> on State Highway 1 in Marlborough.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/587567\/two-people-dead-three-others-in-critical-condition-after-sh1-crash-in-marlborough\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">called to the crash<\/a> near Redwood Pass, about 10.40am on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Two people died at the scene, and three others were taken to Wellington Christchurch hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Police said on Monday that a third person has since died in a hospital, while one other was still critically hurt and another in a serious condition.<\/p>\n<p>State Highway 1 was closed for six hours as police investigated.<\/p>\n<p>The road has since reopened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State Highway 1, near Redwood Pass, was closed for six hours while the serious crash unit conducted a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-298570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298570","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=298570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}