{"id":308939,"date":"2026-03-02T05:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T05:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/308939\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T05:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T05:02:10","slug":"serious-crash-state-highway-1-at-whakapara-reopens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/308939\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious crash: State Highway 1 at Whakapara reopens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/9efb65fe-03d6-4e60-850d-8911700e8a2f.png\" alt=\"Brodie Stone\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/northern-advocate\/author\/brodie-stone\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Brodie Stone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Northern Advocate\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>1 Mar, 2026 07:57 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\">Two people have believed to have been seriously injured in a crash about 20 minutes north of Whang\u0101rei this morning. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">State Highway 1 north of Whang\u0101rei has reopened following a serious crash this morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police say they were called to the crash involving two vehicles at Whakapara about 6.50am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Two people are believed to have been seriously injured, and the Serious Crash Unit has been called.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Diversions were in<br \/>\n         place at Jordan Valley Rd and Hukerenui Rd.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"BseiQmTTCbyVEQR\" style=\"display:none\">New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi said some delays were still expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brodie Stone Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Northern Advocate\u00b7 1 Mar, 2026 07:57 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1975,3549,5504,26755,1304,111,43,139,529,69,20593,1854,1238,13672,1961,58259,1869],"class_list":{"0":"post-308939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-at","9":"tag-crash","10":"tag-following","11":"tag-highway","12":"tag-morning","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-north","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-reopened","19":"tag-reopens","20":"tag-serious","21":"tag-state","22":"tag-this","23":"tag-whakapara","24":"tag-whangrei"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308939","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=308939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}