{"id":344239,"date":"2026-03-23T21:11:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T21:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/344239\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T21:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T21:11:18","slug":"two-people-die-after-truck-crash-on-sh57-near-levin-road-remains-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/344239\/","title":{"rendered":"Two people die after truck crash on SH57 near Levin, road remains closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">He referred all other inquiries to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">A Hato Hone St John spokesman said an ambulance and a manager vehicle attended but could not comment further.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">It follows a horrific weekend on New Zealand roads, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/horror-weekend-on-nz-roads-as-six-people-die-in-six-separate-crashes\/CIZKNNTJ5FEB7O7HHVB4HBDB74\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/horror-weekend-on-nz-roads-as-six-people-die-in-six-separate-crashes\/CIZKNNTJ5FEB7O7HHVB4HBDB74\/\">six people killed in six separate crashes<\/a> over 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Those crashes \u2013 in Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Taranaki and Southland \u2013 bring the 2026 road toll to 71, according to the NZ Transport Agency website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">By this time last year, 68 people had died on New Zealand roads, while in 2024 the road toll for the same period was 59.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He referred all other inquiries to police. A Hato Hone St John spokesman said an ambulance and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,5201,28649,3549,309,6179,305,42,2514,123192,3180,43,529,90,14727,6507,384,10715,1314,129322,40,38,41,39,2951,23857,29271,1237],"class_list":["post-344239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-closed","tag-collided","tag-crash","tag-die","tag-died","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-island","tag-levin","tag-near","tag-news","tag-north","tag-on","tag-outside","tag-overnight","tag-people","tag-remains","tag-road","tag-sh57","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-town","tag-truck","tag-trucks","tag-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344239","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=344239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}