{"id":309501,"date":"2026-03-02T14:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/309501\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T14:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:40:13","slug":"sunlive-highway-clear-after-sh36-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/309501\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Highway clear after SH36 crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A section of State Highway 36 between Tauranga and Rotorua is now open following a crash earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>The highway was blocked in both directions after truck and another vehicle crashed south of Roy Rd at 1.20pm.<\/p>\n<p>Police said one person was reported to have minor injuries, and one person was reported to have moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p>NZ Transport Agency said SH36 was closed in both directions south of Roy Rd at the one-way bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Diversions were in place at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>NZTA reports both sides of the highway are now open.<\/p>\n<p>At the scene?<\/p>\n<p>Call 0800 SUNLIVE or email photos to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunlive.co.nz\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"18767d6f6b6a777775586c707d6b6d76367b77367662\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A section of State Highway 36 between Tauranga and Rotorua is now open following a crash earlier today.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-309501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309501","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=309501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}