{"id":347828,"date":"2026-03-25T23:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T23:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/347828\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T23:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T23:12:10","slug":"long-tailbacks-on-dunedin-motorway-second-morning-in-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/347828\/","title":{"rendered":"Long tailbacks on Dunedin motorway second morning in row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_3754_0.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Traffic backed up on the southern motorway. Photo: Stephen Jaquiery\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Traffic backed up on the southern motorway. Photo: Stephen Jaquiery<\/p>\n<p>Traffic on the southern motorway is rolling again after being backed up for the second day in a row following a crash near Lookout Point.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the crash involving a car and motorbike happened about 7.35am about 400m south of the Lookout Point turnoff.<\/p>\n<p>That is the same place where a similar nose to tail crash happened yesterday morning.<\/p>\n<p>NZTA Waka Kotahi said the crash had blocked the right eastbound lane at Lookout Point, near Burnett Street.<\/p>\n<p>The motorway was clear by 9.15am, NZTA said<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traffic backed up on the southern motorway. Photo: Stephen Jaquiery Traffic on the southern motorway is rolling again&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-347828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347828","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=347828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}