{"id":358616,"date":"2026-04-01T13:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/358616\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T13:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:23:10","slug":"cattle-driver-unhurt-after-stock-truck-overturns-in-catlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/358616\/","title":{"rendered":"Cattle, driver unhurt after stock truck overturns in Catlins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A load of cattle and a truck driver have managed to walk away unhurt after a stock truck overturned in the Catlins area this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesman said the truck and trailer rolled on to its side near the intersection of Catlins Valley Rd and Papatowai Highway about 5.20pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2018There was an initial call made to a vet, but they got stood down pretty much straight away when it was assessed and realised that the stock were all out and OK.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2018The driver was also out of the truck and was OK.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He said the stock were moved into a neighbouring paddock while they waited to be picked up by another stock truck.<\/p>\n<p>Police inquiries were continuing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/regions\/south-otago\/mailto:john.lewis@odt.co.nz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">john.lewis@odt.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A load of cattle and a truck driver have managed to walk away unhurt after a stock truck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-358616","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\/358616","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=358616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}