{"id":334076,"date":"2026-03-17T14:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/334076\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:39:10","slug":"serious-crash-closes-stretch-of-state-highway-1-in-north-canterbury-two-airlifted-to-christchurch-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/334076\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious crash closes stretch of State Highway 1 in North Canterbury, two airlifted to Christchurch Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"KYEvgaSZnwMMmNilyq\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cTwo patients, in serious condition, have been airlifted to Christchurch Hospital. One additional patient, in minor condition, has been transported by road to Christchurch Hospital,\u201d St John said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYEvgaSZnwMMmNilyq\" style=\"display:none\">Police said the Serious Crash Unit was advised and the road remained closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYEvgaSZnwMMmNilyq\" style=\"display:none\">NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) said drivers should expect delays and consider avoiding travel through the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYEvgaSZnwMMmNilyq\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSCU [Serious Crash Unit] will be attending the scene and their investigations can take several hours. Consider an alternative route.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYEvgaSZnwMMmNilyq\" style=\"display:none\">\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/589827\/crash-closes-stretch-of-state-highway-1-in-north-canterbury\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/589827\/crash-closes-stretch-of-state-highway-1-in-north-canterbury\">RNZ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTwo patients, in serious condition, have been airlifted to Christchurch Hospital. One additional patient, in minor condition, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11727,8126,4487,18509,3549,26755,2241,78,111,43,139,529,69,1118,1238,13672,11584,61,1237],"class_list":["post-334076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-airlifted","tag-canterbury","tag-christchurch","tag-closes","tag-crash","tag-highway","tag-hospital","tag-in","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-serious","tag-state","tag-stretch","tag-to","tag-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334076","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=334076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}