{"id":311005,"date":"2026-03-03T13:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/311005\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T13:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:30:13","slug":"sh1-meremere-crash-motorcyclist-seriously-injured-lanes-reopen-northbound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/311005\/","title":{"rendered":"SH1 Meremere crash: Motorcyclist seriously injured, lanes reopen northbound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOne patient, in serious condition, has been transported by road to Middlemore Hospital,\u201d a St John spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">Police said the Serious Crash Unit had been advised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">Earlier, SH1 was closed northbound from Hampton Downs Rd, and motorists could re-enter the expressway at Springhill Rd. <\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">Police said the northbound lanes have now reopened. <\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">Police thanked motorists for their patience while the scene was cleared. <\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">Malisha Kumar is a multimedia journalist based in Hamilton. She joined the Waikato Herald in 2023 after working for Radio 1XX in Whakat\u0101ne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOne patient, in serious condition, has been transported by road to Middlemore Hospital,\u201d a St John spokesperson said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,1558,3549,42,26755,2241,10933,3950,169352,94502,33260,43,29817,4056,1230,1238,23419,37229,13672,19554,40,38,41,39,1524],"class_list":{"0":"post-311005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-been","10":"tag-crash","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-highway","13":"tag-hospital","14":"tag-injured","15":"tag-lanes","16":"tag-meremere","17":"tag-middlemore","18":"tag-motorcyclist","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-northbound","21":"tag-person","22":"tag-reopen","23":"tag-serious","24":"tag-seriously","25":"tag-sh1","26":"tag-state","27":"tag-taken","28":"tag-top-news","29":"tag-top-stories","30":"tag-topnews","31":"tag-topstories","32":"tag-waikato"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311005","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=311005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}