{"id":365762,"date":"2026-04-06T04:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/365762\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T04:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:16:08","slug":"traffic-delays-on-sh2-following-car-fire-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/365762\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic delays on SH2 following car fire reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">Google\u2019s live traffic reporting shows traffic is backed up in both lanes of the highway.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\" Traffic delays on SH2, near the Wairoa Bridge, near Bethlehem. Image \/ Google Maps\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/> Traffic delays on SH2, near the Wairoa Bridge, near Bethlehem. Image \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">NZTA said due to a car fire, the eastbound lane on the Wairoa Bridge is blocked. Pass with care and expect delays.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\" Traffic backed up on SH2, near Bethlehem. Photo \/ Anita Darmawan\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/> Traffic backed up on SH2, near Bethlehem. Photo \/ Anita Darmawan<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">A police spokesperson said they were called to assist Fire and Emergency New Zealand with traffic control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s live traffic reporting shows traffic is backed up in both lanes of the highway. Traffic delays on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[682,22374,3944,16492,2079,5504,26755,3180,111,43,139,69,90,15267,766,47621,13672,3946],"class_list":{"0":"post-365762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-being","9":"tag-bethlehem","10":"tag-car","11":"tag-delays","12":"tag-fire","13":"tag-following","14":"tag-highway","15":"tag-near","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-on","21":"tag-reported","22":"tag-reports","23":"tag-sh2","24":"tag-state","25":"tag-traffic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365762","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=365762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}