{"id":338102,"date":"2026-03-19T22:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/338102\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T22:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:08:11","slug":"commuter-woes-after-car-flipped-onto-its-side-on-aucklands-sh1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/338102\/","title":{"rendered":"Commuter woes after car flipped onto its side on Auckland&#8217;s SH1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand Transport Agency is warning of congestion on Auckland&#8217;s northern motorway this morning after a car flipped onto its side during a two-vehicle crash. <\/p>\n<p>Police said it was called to the two-vehicle crash just after 6am. <\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency New Zealand said it had two crews on the scene near the Onewa Rd exit on State Highway 1 southbound. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a-crash-has-closed-two-lanes-near-the-onewa-rd-exit-NBVUJGIXINFIPMLOJWFLDWW3TM.jpg\" alt=\"A crash has closed two lanes near the Onewa Rd exit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">A crash has closed two lanes near the Onewa Rd exit. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p>A FENZ spokesperson said nobody was trapped in either vehicle. <\/p>\n<p>St John said it sent one ambulance and one operations manager to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have three patients, two are in minor condition and one is in moderate condition,&#8221; a St John spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The person in moderate condition was being transported to North Shore Hospital. <\/p>\n<p>New Zealand Transport Agency said the lanes have since reopened, but urged people to &#8220;allow extra time while congestion eases&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>1News footage from the scene showed a car flipped onto its side, as emergency services worked at the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">Emergency services rushed to the scene shortly after 6am following the two-vehicle crash.  (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand Transport Agency is warning of congestion on Auckland&#8217;s northern motorway this morning after a car flipped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,51,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-338102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-auckland","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\/338102","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=338102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}