{"id":322418,"date":"2026-03-10T12:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/322418\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:25:11","slug":"two-people-die-in-two-vehicle-crash-at-southlands-isla-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/322418\/","title":{"rendered":"Two people die in two-vehicle crash at Southland&#8217;s Isla Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have died following a serious crash in the Southland rural community of Isla Bank earlier this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The two-car crash at the intersection of Fairfax-Isla Bank Rd and Isla Bank-Flints Bush Rd, about 37km northwest of Invercargill, was reported to emergency services just before 9am. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite emergency services&#8217; best efforts, two people sadly died at the scene,&#8221; a police spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p>Police said the road had since reopened following a scene examination by the Serious Crash Unit. <\/p>\n<p>Inquiries into the crash were ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have died following a serious crash in the Southland rural community of Isla Bank earlier this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,42,43,15488,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-322418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-southland","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322418","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=322418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}