{"id":368910,"date":"2026-04-08T03:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/368910\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T03:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:44:11","slug":"dunedin-motorway-reopens-after-being-blocked-by-digger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/368910\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunedin motorway reopens after being blocked by digger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4JQHUH8_HFVqkk_W4AAEKGL_jfif.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"591\" alt=\"Dunedin's southern motorway was closed on Wednesday 8 April between the Concord off-ramps at Burnside after a digger fell off a truck.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nDunedin&#8217;s southern motorway was closed at Burnside after a digger fell off a truck.<br \/>\nPhoto: NZTA \/ Waka Kotahi\n<\/p>\n<p>The Southern Motorway at Burnside in Dunedin has reopened hours after it was blocked by a digger that fell off a truck.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the crash on SH1 south of Morningside Road about 10.40am on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Tmotorway was blocked in both directions while the digger was uplifted, and it re-opened around 1.40pm.<\/p>\n<p>Police said enquiries into the incident were still going and they called for anyone with any revelant information to get in touch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dunedin&#8217;s southern motorway was closed at Burnside after a digger fell off a truck. Photo: NZTA \/ Waka&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-368910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368910","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=368910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}