{"id":313363,"date":"2026-03-05T00:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/313363\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T00:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:23:08","slug":"sh2-baypark-crash-highway-reopens-after-one-person-seriously-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/313363\/","title":{"rendered":"SH2 Baypark crash: Highway reopens after one person seriously injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  alt=\"The three-vehicle crash happened on SH2 near Baypark. Image \/ Google Maps\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The three-vehicle crash happened on SH2 near Baypark. Image \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">According to Google\u2019s Live Traffic Reporting, traffic was stalled in the Mount Maunganui-bound lane just before the SH29A intersection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">NZTA reported on its website that, \u201cdue to a crash on SH2, the road was closed westbound at the Te Maunga Interchange\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">The roading agency said the road was now open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAll lanes have now been opened. There was a tail-back of traffic, but [it] is now flowing well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The three-vehicle crash happened on SH2 near Baypark. Image \/ Google Maps According to Google\u2019s Live Traffic Reporting,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,6030,71935,17163,3549,3602,679,26755,10933,1304,170276,3180,111,43,139,69,5270,5493,4056,1854,23419,47621,13672,1961],"class_list":["post-313363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-again","tag-baypark","tag-closure","tag-crash","tag-earlier","tag-forced","tag-highway","tag-injured","tag-morning","tag-multiplevehicle","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-open","tag-person","tag-reopens","tag-seriously","tag-sh2","tag-state","tag-this"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313363","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=313363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}