{"id":343593,"date":"2026-03-23T10:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/343593\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T10:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:56:09","slug":"two-killed-in-two-vehicle-crash-near-levin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/343593\/","title":{"rendered":"Two killed in two-vehicle crash near Levin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two people have died following a two-vehicle crash near Levin in the early hours of this morning.<\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to State Highway 57 at around 2.30am on Monday.<\/p>\n

“Sadly, two people were pronounced deceased at the scene,” a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

The road remained closed while the serious crash unit conducted a scene examination, with inquiries ongoing into the circumstances of the crash.<\/p>\n

NZTA said State Highway 57 was closed between the intersections of SH1 and Tararua Rd. <\/p>\n

“Continue using an alternative route for travel through the area and allowing additional time for travel,” an NZTA spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

St John has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n

The double fatal crash brings the road toll to eight in the past 48 hours.<\/p>\n

Six were killed<\/a> and multiple others were injured in a series of crashes across the country on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have died following a two-vehicle crash near Levin in the early hours of this morning. Emergency…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,42,31044,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-343593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-headlines","tag-manawatu-wanganui","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\/343593","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=343593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}