{"id":307190,"date":"2026-02-28T23:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/307190\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T23:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:35:08","slug":"serious-two-vehicle-crash-on-aucklands-northwestern-motorway-creates-4km-queues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/307190\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious two-vehicle crash on Auckland\u2019s Northwestern motorway creates 4km queues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">Motorists were advised to avoid the motorway at this time, or delay travel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) advised people to pass with care and expect delays. <\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">Two of the three eastbound lanes are blocked after the Lincoln Rd on-ramp, it said.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Traffic on the Northwestern Motorway. Photo \/ Google Maps\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Traffic on the Northwestern Motorway. Photo \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">Google Maps showed gridlocked traffic on the motorway for 4km from the Lincoln Rd on-ramp back to the Hobsonville Rd on-ramp. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motorists were advised to avoid the motorway at this time, or delay travel. NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[167884,3952,28648,11519,29820,3549,146595,46329,3950,3945,111,43,139,34608,69,90,29547,27563,1238,13109,3946,44097],"class_list":["post-307190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-4km","tag-aucklands","tag-blocked","tag-causing","tag-citybound","tag-crash","tag-creates","tag-gridlocked","tag-lanes","tag-motorway","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-northwestern","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-queue","tag-queues","tag-serious","tag-several","tag-traffic","tag-twovehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307190","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=307190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}