{"id":355563,"date":"2026-03-30T18:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/355563\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T18:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:05:13","slug":"one-dead-after-crash-between-car-and-truck-closes-sh3-near-te-awamutu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/355563\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead after crash between car and truck closes SH3 near Te Awamutu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waikato Herald<\/p>\n<p>30 Mar, 2026 03:18 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A two-vehicle crash on State Highway 3, near Kihikihi, was reported just after 2.30pm. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One person has died in a serious crash near Te Awamutu that closed a section of State Highway 3. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police said the truck and car collision on State Highway 3 was reported just after 2.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The highway remains closed southbound, near Kihikihi, between McGhie Rd and Herbert St. <\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi said detours were in place via Flat Rd, Golf Rd and Herbert St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waikato Herald 30 Mar, 2026 03:18 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,95,38474,5432,3944,5201,18509,3549,690,6179,26755,3180,111,43,139,69,5270,4056,14777,1238,171602,13672,8690,1361,23857],"class_list":["post-355563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-and","tag-awamutu","tag-between","tag-car","tag-closed","tag-closes","tag-crash","tag-dead","tag-died","tag-highway","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-person","tag-section","tag-serious","tag-sh3","tag-state","tag-te","tag-that","tag-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355563","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=355563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}