{"id":310933,"date":"2026-03-03T12:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/310933\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:18:13","slug":"sunlive-live-traffic-crash-reported-on-te-awanui-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/310933\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Live traffic: Crash reported on Te Awanui Dr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Update, 6.30pm:<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesman said a two-car crash on Te Awanui Drive was reported about 3.50pm, and was initially blocking traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Police attended but had since left the scene.<\/p>\n<p>There were no reports of injuries in the police file on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Google Live Traffic Reporting shows traffic is flowing as normal.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier:<\/p>\n<p>Traffic is reportedly stalled on Te Awanui Drive following reports of a crash in Mount Maunganui.<\/p>\n<p>A reader has phoned in to say that there was a two-vehicle crash near \u201cthe silos on Hewletts Rd\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The reader said one of the vehicles looked badly damaged and traffic was \u201cmental\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to Google\u2019s Live Traffic Reporting, traffic is stalled in the Mount bound lane between the Elizabeth St roundabout, over the Tauranga Harbour Bridge heading towards Totara St.<\/p>\n<p>Police have been contacted for more information.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260303-Traffic-Delays.jpg\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Traffic is stalled on Te Awanui Drive. Image \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Update, 6.30pm: A police spokesman said a two-car crash on Te Awanui Drive was reported about 3.50pm, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-310933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310933","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=310933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}