{"id":305690,"date":"2026-02-28T00:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/305690\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T00:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:46:08","slug":"state-highway-8-lindis-pass-reopens-after-serious-single-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/305690\/","title":{"rendered":"State Highway 8 Lindis Pass reopens after serious single-car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>27 Feb, 2026 11:27 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\">Lindis Pass\/State Highway 8 was closed from Broken Hutt Rd and Old Faithful Rd after a single-car crash, a police spokesperson said. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Lindis Pass\/State Highway 8 is now open again after a single-vehicle crash occurred early this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The road was closed from Broken Hutt Rd and Old Faithful Rd after the crash, a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One person suffered serious injuries and was attended to by ambulance services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The Serious Crash<br \/>\n         Unit has been notified.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">Police thanked motorists for their patience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 27 Feb, 2026 11:27 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,6030,3549,2245,26755,167182,1304,111,43,139,69,66894,5493,51252,167184,1854,1238,167183,78117,13672,1961],"class_list":{"0":"post-305690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-again","10":"tag-crash","11":"tag-early","12":"tag-highway","13":"tag-lindis","14":"tag-morning","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-occurred","20":"tag-open","21":"tag-pass","22":"tag-passstate","23":"tag-reopens","24":"tag-serious","25":"tag-singlecar","26":"tag-singlevehicle","27":"tag-state","28":"tag-this"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305690","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=305690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}